GenomicsForOneHealth

Real-time Genomics for One Health

Nanopore-based genomic surveillance at the intersection of human, animal, and environmental health.

Pipelines

10 workflows across 6 One Health domains

Based at

University of Zurich — Food Safety & One Health Institutes

Publication

Real-time genomics for One Health — Mol Sys Biol, 2023

Pipelines & Team

Six domains, ten workflows

Reproducible nanopore workflows across One Health domains.

Environmental Metagenomics

Air & Wetland

Nanopore metagenomics for bioaerosol communities and wetland pathogen & AMR surveillance.

eDNA Metabarcoding

Zambia Biodiversity

Portable nanopore eDNA metabarcoding for vertebrate biodiversity monitoring in remote field conditions.

Food Safety

A metagenomic framework for rapid Listeria monocytogenes surveillance in food production environments

High-resolution genomic analysis of Listeria monocytogenes from complex food matrices using adaptive sampling.

Clinical Isolates & Plasmid Profiling

AMR, CRE & Host Association

Rapid clinical AMR detection, CRE plasmid clustering, and methylation-based resistance–pathogen linkage.

Veterinary & Zoonotic Surveillance

Avian Influenza & Transmission

Rapid AIV profiling from DNA and RNA nanopore data, plus variant calling for cross-host transmission tracking.

Viability Assessment

Squiggle4Viability

Deep learning on raw nanopore signals to distinguish viable from dead microorganisms without culture.

The team

Prof. Dr. Lara Urban

PI (Helmholtz AI & UZH)

Dr. Albert Perlas

Postdoc — Virome & AIV

Tim Reska

PhD — Metagenomics

Daniel Gygax

PhD — eDNA

Ela Sauerborn

PhD — CRE & Isolates

Harika Ürel

PhD — Plasmid & Viability

Getting Started

Clone and run

git clone https://github.com/ttmgr/GenomicsForOneHealth.git
cd GenomicsForOneHealth
mamba env create -f environment.yaml
conda activate genomics-onehealth

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