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Strain recovery from metagenomes

Genome assembly of closely related strains present in very large metagenome data sets is enabled by a de novo pre-assembly algorithm.

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Figure 1: Generalized metagenomic workflow with and without LSA.

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Brown, C. Strain recovery from metagenomes. Nat Biotechnol 33, 1041–1043 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.3375

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