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Micro-Scale Applications head Rex Malmstrom and Metagenome Program head Emiley Eloe-Fadrosh outline more targeted … method of traditional shotgun metagenomics. One approach uses fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS) to sort … a recent Nature Communications paper, uncovering giant virus sequences in soil for the first time. A second approach …

… the genome. Many plant pathogens such as the fungi that cause poplar leaf rust, are rich in transposons, which may help the pathogens … the true diversity of the fungal kingdom. The abundance of fungal genomes underscores the need for a more …

… samples — from plants, algae, bacteria, archaea, fungi, viruses — to support scientists around the world. Most of those … send their samples in from afar, without ever hearing much about the sequencing lab. So today, Chris Daum walks through …