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… by collecting nearly 500 single cells from a single low diversity hot spring sediment sample. Their work showed that … thousands of previously unknown and uncultivated microbes through metagenomics. Such techniques take advantage of bioinformatics tools for  extracting snippets of microbial genomes directly from environmental sequence data, …

… in nearly all types of anaerobic environments suggest the diversity of methane metabolisms is “vastly underestimated.” … issue of Nature Microbiology , they mined the Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) database maintained … may be analogous to environments found on early Earth.”  Through the JGI Community Science Program, Inskeep and McKay …