Results of a joint research in which a DBCLS’s Project Associate Professor Shuichi Kawashima and Deputy Director Susumu Goto participated has been published in “Scientific Data” on February 11, 2026.

The research outcomes include:

1. Developing “AutoFixMark,” software that accurately predicts the carbon dioxide (CO₂) fixation pathways possessed by chemolithoautotrophic bacteria based on genomic information.
2. Defining characteristic marker genes for all seven known CO₂ fixation pathways
3. Constructing a high-quality reference dataset containing genomic information and CO₂ fixation pathway information for 347 chemolithoautotrophic bacterial strains
   
   

Please find the details at the publication titled as “A curated resource of chemolithoautotrophic genomes and marker genes for CO2 fixation pathway prediction”

The article can be found at the following URL

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-026-06655-z