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Ahmed A. Zayed’s indexed work centers on characterizing the diversity and evolutionary origins of RNA viruses in marine environments. His first-authored 2022 *Science* paper (263 citations) revealed cryptic and abundant marine viruses at the evolutionary roots of Earth’s RNA virome, a finding that reshaped understanding of viral deep time. He also developed efam, an expanded HMM profile database of viral protein families (2021, *Bioinformatics*), which provides a metaproteome-supported resource for annotating viral sequences. Earlier work includes a study on **highly levofloxacin-resistant *E. coli* “supermutators”** (2015, *Emerging Microbes & Infections*), contributing a rapid detection protocol for mutation sites. Zayed contributed as a middle author to several high-impact consortia papers, including VirSorter2 (2021, *Microbiome*, 1,371 citations), an expert-guided tool for detecting diverse DNA and RNA viruses, and DRAM for distilling microbial metabolism (2020, *Nucleic Acids Research*, 1,213 citations), which automates microbiome function curation. He also participated in the Marine DNA Viral Macro- and Microdiversity from Pole to Pole study (2019, *Cell*, 913 citations). Across these works, his research consistently bridges computational tool development with large-scale viral ecology, from the human gut to the global ocean.
Jiarong Guo, Ben Bolduc, Ahmed A Zayed, Arvind Varsani, Guillermo Dominguez-Huerta, Tom O Delmont, Akbar Adjie Pratama, M Consuelo Gazitúa, Dean Vik, Matthew B Sullivan, Simon Roux
Michael Shaffer, Mikayla A Borton, Bridget B McGivern, Ahmed A Zayed, Sabina Leanti La Rosa
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Ann C Gregory, Ahmed A Zayed, Nádia Conceição-Neto, Ben Temperton, Ben Bolduc, Adriana Alberti, Mathieu Ardyna, Ksenia Arkhipova, Margaux Carmichael, Corinne Cruaud, Céline Dimier, Guillermo Domínguez-Huerta, Joannie Ferland, Stefanie Kandels, Yunxiao Liu, Claudie Marec, Stéphane Pesant, Marc Picheral, Sergey Pisarev, Julie Poulain, Jean-Éric Tremblay, Dean Vik, Tara Oceans Coordinators, Marcel Babin, Chris Bowler, Alexander I Culley, Colomban de Vargas, Bas E Dutilh, Daniele Iudicone, Lee Karp-Boss, Simon Roux, Shinichi Sunagawa, Patrick Wincker, Matthew B Sullivan
Ann C Gregory, Olivier Zablocki, Ahmed A Zayed, Allison Howell, Benjamin Bolduc, Matthew B Sullivan
Guillem Salazar, Lucas Paoli, Adriana Alberti, Jaime Huerta-Cepas, Hans-Joachim Ruscheweyh, Miguelangel Cuenca, Christopher M Field, Luis Pedro Coelho, Corinne Cruaud, Stefan Engelen, Ann C Gregory, Karine Labadie, Claudie Marec, Eric Pelletier, Marta Royo-Llonch, Simon Roux, Pablo Sánchez, Hideya Uehara, Ahmed A Zayed, Georg Zeller, Margaux Carmichael, Céline Dimier, Joannie Ferland, Stefanie Kandels, Marc Picheral, Sergey Pisarev, Julie Poulain, Tara Oceans Coordinators, Silvia G Acinas, Marcel Babin, Peer Bork, Chris Bowler, Colomban de Vargas, Lionel Guidi, Pascal Hingamp, Daniele Iudicone, Lee Karp-Boss, Eric Karsenti, Hiroyuki Ogata, Stephane Pesant, Sabrina Speich, Matthew B Sullivan, Patrick Wincker, Shinichi Sunagawa