Journal of Computer Science & Systems Biology

Biological Systems Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Okinawa, 904-045, Japan

Publications

• Research Article   
  Do Microbial Fuel Cells have Antipathogenic Properties?
  Author(s): Olga Vasieva, Anatoly Sorokin, Lukasz Szydlowski and Igor Goryanin*
  
  During 2015-2017 we have conducted experiments in Japan to test the capacity of microbial fuel cells (MFC) to treat different types of wastewaters (swine farm, domestic, yeast fermentation, winery, etc.) and concomitantly collecting DNA samples from MFC anodic and planktonic bacterial communities. W e analyzed these metagenomes in UK, using our new bioinformatics tool (ASAR) that allow integration of phylogenetic and functional data. Characteristic MFC communities and the associated functional signatures were shown to reflect effective waste water treatment. We also found that the fraction of opportunistic pathogenic bacteria DNA was reduced in metagenomes from MFC communities during swine waste treatment. The highest loss was recorded for Enterobacteriaceae family (such as Yersinia, Vibrio, and Shigella). The abundance of virulent genes responsibl.. Read More»
  

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