CUBE part of new Innovative Training Network VIROINF
CUBE
A team of CUBE and DOME researchers, and 14 other beneficiaries under the lead of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena in Germany, have recently…
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
Adrian Tett new group leader at CUBE
CUBE
Adrian Tett has been appointed as new group leader at CUBE. Adrian has worked before as Senior Research Associate in the Computational Metagenomics…
Dr. rer nat Hans-Jörg Hellinger
CUBE
Even if the University is closed due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemy, CUBE keeps going on. On Wednesday, April 8, Hans-Jörg Hellinger finished his PhD…
CUBE is part of new research platform MetaBac
CUBE
The research platform "Secondary Metabolomes of Bacterial Communities (MetaBac)”, linking the research groups of Sergey Zotchev, Martion Zehl, Alex…
CUBE is part of new research platform MINERVA
CUBE
The research platform "Mineralogical Preservation of the Human Biome from the Depth of Time (MINERVA)”, linking the research groups of Ron Pinhasi,…
Registration open for EMBO Practical Course: Integrated multi-omic analyses of microbial communities
CUBE
This EMBO Practical Course is aimed at early-stage researchers (PhD students, early PostDocs) with prior expertise in one (or more) of these “omes”…
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