Long Night of Research 2022 – Our DocSchool on Campus
CeMESS
Exciting insights into research have been provided by the Long Night of Research on Friday, May 20. Our Doctoral School in Microbiology and…
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
MSCA Fellowships awarded to CMESS: Three projects start in 2023
CeMESS
Three current and future CMESS researchers receive a highly competitive Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship (MSCA-PF). Songcan Chen and…
Start of CMESS Lecture Series – summer 2022 edition
CeMESS
On Thursday, 3rd of March, this semester’s CMESS Lecture Series starts with a talk by Raquel Peixoto from the King Abdullah University of Science and…
EMBO Practical Course Integrated multi-omic analyses of microbial communities: 23 – 29 April 2022 | Luxembourg
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”…
New bachelor or master project: wavefront transformation and alignment of protein sequences
CUBE
Protein sequence alignment is a fundamental and widely-used technique in bioinformatics. A new bachelor or master thesis project will enable and…
CMESS celebrates four Highly Cited Researchers 2021
CeMESS
CMESS is home to four of the world's most cited researchers. Holger Daims (DOME), Thomas Rattei (CUBE), Andreas Richter (TER) and Michael Wagner…
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