New Christian Doppler Laboratory at CeMESS
CeMESS
Research for sustainable solutions: Focus on the biodegradation of water-soluble polymers
Division of Computational Systems Biology
Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science
About CUBE
The Division of Computational Systems Biology | CUBE at the Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science | CeMESS is a group of bioinformaticians and computational biologists. CUBE focuses on understanding biological systems, ranging from single species to multi-species systems and ecosystems.
Our research is based on data from large-scale bioanalytical methods. Researchers in our group develop, improve and apply computational methods for the interpretation of molecular information in biology. We establish and analyse quantitative mathematical models.
CeMESS/Maximilian Prag
Eight “Highly Cited Researchers” at CeMESS
CeMESS
CeMESS is proud to announce that eight of its researchers across all its four divisions have been named on the 2025 Clarivate list of the world's most…
Three Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships awarded to CeMESS
CeMESS
Congratulations to Valentin Waschulin, Ruizhe Pei and Tomohisa Sebastian Tanabe, who each received a highly competitive Marie Skłodowska-Curie…
Three CeMESS Scientists Recognized as “Highly Cited Researchers”
CeMESS
CeMESS is proud to celebrate Andreas Richter (TER), Michael Wagner (DOME), and Wolfgang Wanek (TER) for their inclusion in the 2024 Clarivate list of…
Congratulations, Dr. Trgovec-Greif!
CUBE
Lovro Trgovec-Greif successfully defended his PhD thesis "Virus bioinformatics and phage-bacteria interactions".
Congratulations, Dr. Sango!
CUBE
Roko Sango defended his PhD thesis "Computational metabolic modelling and multi-omics analysis of bone-marrow derived and tissue-resident macrophages"…
Life Science Compute Cluster
We operate and administer Life Science Compute Cluster (LiSC), a specialized high-performance computing infrastructure which is available to life scientists across the University of Vienna.
Recent Publications
2023
Blanco-Míguez A, Beghini F, Cumbo F, McIver LJ, Thompson KN, Zolfo M et al. Extending and improving metagenomic taxonomic profiling with uncharacterized species using MetaPhlAn 4. Nature Biotechnology. 2023 Nov;41(11):1633-1644. Epub 2023 Feb 23. doi: 10.1038/s41587-023-01688-w
Valles-Colomer M, Blanco-Míguez A, Manghi P, Asnicar F, Dubois L, Golzato D et al. The person-to-person transmission landscape of the gut and oral microbiomes. Nature. 2023 Feb 2;614(7946):125-135. doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05620-1
2021
Sarhan MS, Lehmkuhl A, Straub R, Tett AJ, Wieland G, Franken M et al. Ancient DNA diffuses from human bones to cave stones. Iscience. 2021 Dec 17;24(12):103397. 103397. Epub 2021 Nov 23. doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2021.103397
Maixner F, Sarhan MS, Huang KD, Tett A, Schoenafinger A, Zingale S et al. Hallstatt miners consumed blue cheese and beer during the Iron Age and retained a non-Westernized gut microbiome until the Baroque period. Current Biology. 2021 Dec 6;31(23):5149-5162. Epub 2021 Oct 13. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.09.031
Granehall L, Huang KD, Tett A, Manghi P, Paladin A, O'Sullivan N et al. Metagenomic analysis of ancient dental calculus reveals unexplored diversity of oral archaeal Methanobrevibacter. Microbiome. 2021 Sept 30;9(1):197. doi: 10.1186/s40168-021-01132-8
Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science
University of Vienna
CeMESS/Maximilian Prag