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Human microbiome cultivation expands with AI

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An automated system for picking bacterial colonies is used to create a biobank of personalized microbiomes.

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Fig. 1: Summary of the CAMII workflow for automated and targeted high-throughput culturomics from single microbiome samples.

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    Marta Selma-Royo, Nicola Segata & Liviana Ricci

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Selma-Royo, M., Segata, N. & Ricci, L. Human microbiome cultivation expands with AI. Nat Biotechnol 41, 1389–1391 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-023-01852-2

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