November has been a busy month for the CLIMB Consortium members. Check out a few of these publications on a whole range of Microbiology and Genomic topics:

• A phylogeny-based sampling strategy and power calculator informs genome-wide associations study design for microbial pathogens
• Evidence of land-sea transfer of the zoonotic pathogen Campylobacter to a wildlife marine sentinel species
• Seeking the source of Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections in a recently opened hospital: an observational study using whole-genome sequencing
• Genomic epidemiology of a protracted hospital outbreak caused by multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii in Birmingham, England
• Biochemical and Structural Characterization of Mycobacterial Aspartyl-tRNA Synthetase AspS, a Promising TB Drug Target
• Reagent and laboratory contamination can critically impact sequence-based microbiome analyses
• Binning metagenomic contigs by coverage and composition
• Characterisation of plasmids in extensively drug-resistant (XDR) Acinetobacter species from India and Pakistan
• Rapid phylogenetic analysis of large samples of recombinant bacterial whole genome sequences using Gubbins
• Whole genome sequencing reveals potential spread of Clostridium difficile between humans and farm animals in the Netherlands, 2002 to 2011
• Identification of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) clades with long-term global distribution