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Metagenomic sorcery and the expanding protein universe

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A metagenomic study of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans reveals dominant bacterial species, remarkable microdiversity and a wealth of new proteins.

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Figure 1: Statistics of genomes and proteins in the GOS data.

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