PUBLICATIONS

2023:

Evaluating the long-term portrayal of antibiotic resistance in major U.S. newspapers
Allison Way, Maria Bond, Bradley Nanna, & Erik Wright
BMC Public Health (2023)

Multi-factorial examination of amplicon sequencing workflows from sample preparation to bioinformatic analysis
Travis De Wolfe & Erik Wright
BMC Microbiology (2023)

2022:

Balancing Trade-Offs Imposed by Growth Media and Mass Spectrometry for Bacterial Exometabolomics
Ann Donnelly, Nithya Narayanan, Caroline Birer-Williams, Travis DeWolfe, Rosalie Chu, Christopher Anderton, & Erik Wright
Applied and Environmental Microbiology (2022)

Sample-efficient identification of high-dimensional antibiotic synergy with a normalized diagonal sampling design
Jennifer Brennan, Lalit Jain, Sofia Garman, Ann Donnelly, Erik Wright, & Kevin Jamieson
PLOS Computational Biology (2022)

FindNonCoding: rapid and simple detection of non-coding RNAs in genomes
Erik Wright
Bioinformatics (2022)

2021:

Accurate annotation of protein coding sequences with IDTAXA
Nicholas Cooley & Erik Wright
NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics (2021)

Parallel evolution between genomic segments of seasonal human influenza viruses reveals RNA-RNA relationships
Jennifer Jones, Valerie Le Sage, Gabriella Padovani, Michael Calderon, Erik Wright, & Seema Lakdawala
eLife (2021)

SubTap, a Versatile 3D Printed Platform for Eavesdropping on Extracellular Interactions
Caroline Birer-Williams, Rosalie Chu, Christopher Anderton, & Erik Wright
mSystems (2021)

Identification of antibiotic pairs that evade concurrent resistance via a retrospective analysis of antimicrobial susceptibility test results
Andrew Beckley & Erik Wright
The Lancet Microbe (2021)

Multi-stable bacterial communities exhibit extreme sensitivity to initial conditions
Erik Wright, Raveena Gupta, & Kalin Vetsigian
FEMS Microbiology Ecology (2021)

Ten simple rules for hitting a home run with your elevator pitch
Whitney Morgan & Erik Wright
PLoS Computational Biology (2021)

Discordance among antibiotic prescription guidelines reflects a lack of clear best practices
Lauren Rost, M Hong Nguyen, Cornelius Clancy, Ryan Shields, and Erik Wright
Open Forum Infectious Diseases (2021)

2020:

SARS-CoV-2 genome evolution exposes early human adaptations
Erik Wright, Seema Lakdawala, and Vaughn Cooper
bioRxiv (2020)

RNAconTest: Comparing tools for non-coding RNA multiple sequence alignment based on structural consistency
Erik Wright
RNA (2020)

AssessORF: combining evolutionary conservation and proteomics to assess prokaryotic gene predictions
Deepank Korandla, Jacob Wozniak, Anaamika Campeau, David Gonzalez, & Erik Wright
Bioinformatics (2020)

2019:

Stochastic exits from dormancy give rise to heavy‐tailed distributions of descendants in bacterial populations
Erik Wright & Kalin Vetsigian
Molecular Ecology (2019)

Capturing the complex interplay between drugs and the intestinal microbiome
Caroline Birer & Erik Wright
Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics (2019)

2018:

Exclusivity offers a sound yet practical species criterion for bacteria despite abundant gene flow
Erik Wright & David Baum
BMC Genomics (2018)

IDTAXA: a novel approach for accurate taxonomic classification of microbiome sequences
Adithya Murali, Aniruddha Bhargava, Erik Wright
Microbiome (2018)

2017:

Getting my feet wet
Erik Wright
Science (2017)

2016:

Quality filtering of Illumina index reads mitigates sample cross-talk
Erik Wright & Kalin Vetsigian
BMC Genomics (2016)

Using DECIPHER v2.0 to Analyze Big Biological Sequence Data in R
Erik Wright
The R Journal (2016)

Inhibitory interactions promote frequent bistability among competing bacteria
Erik Wright & Kalin Vetsigian
Nature Communications (2016)

DesignSignatures: a tool for designing primers that yields amplicons with distinct signatures
Erik Wright & Kalin Vetsigian
Bioinformatics (2016)

2015:

DECIPHER: harnessing local sequence context to improve protein multiple sequence alignment
Erik Wright
BMC Bioinformatics (2015)

2014:

Mathematical tools to optimize the design of oligonucleotide probes and primers
Daniel Noguera, Erik Wright, Pamela Camejo, and Safak Yilmaz
Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology (2014)

Automated Design of Probes for rRNA-Targeted Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization Reveals the Advantages of Using Dual Probes for Accurate Identification
Erik Wright, Safak Yilmaz, Andrew Corcoran, Hatice Okten, and Daniel Noguera
Applied and Environmental Microbiology (2014)

Exploiting extension bias in polymerase chain reaction to improve primer specificity in ensembles of nearly identical DNA templates
Erik Wright, Safak Yilmaz, Jeremy Gasser, Gregory Harrington, and Daniel Noguera
Environmental Microbiology (2014)

2013:

"Identification of Bacterial and Archaeal Communities From Source to Tap"
Erik Wright, Jacqueline Strait, Safak Yilmaz, Gregory Harrington, and Daniel Noguera
Water Research Foundation (2014)

Modeling formamide denaturation of probe-target hybrids for improved microarray probe design in microbial diagnostics
Safak Yilmaz, Alexander Loy, Erik Wright, Michael Wagner, and Daniel Noguera
PLoS ONE (2013)

2012:

DECIPHER, a search-based approach to chimera identification for 16S rRNA sequences
Erik Wright, Safak Yilmaz, and Daniel Noguera
Applied and Environmental Microbiology (2012)