New EU project: Searching for oil and gas with molecular biological methods
CUBE
Despite all efforts to switch to renewable energies, fossil fuels will continue to play a role in energy supply for several decades to come. An EU…
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
New master thesis project opened: microbe-host interactions in ancient bacteria
CUBE
We have opened a new project for a bachelor or master project at CUBE:
Welcome Johann and Michael, our new IT team
CUBE
After Florian Goldenberg's move to the Vienna Scientific Cluster, we were searching for a new IT and system administrator. We were glad to find two :)…
Thomas Rattei is Highly Cited Researcher 2020
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Clarivate analytics has released the Highly Cited Researchers list of 2020. This list contains scientists who are among the 1% most cited researchers…
Dr. Roman Feldbauer
CUBE
Roman has very successfully passed the defensio of his dissertation. Roman presented his results on "Hubness in the protein sequence universe" and…
Annual Meeting 2020 of the Austrian Life Science Community - virtual meeting with Life Science Tuesdays
CUBE
Our Annual Meeting is the melting pot of the Austrian Life Science Community - a place to listen to renowned speakers, for participants to present…
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