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Single-cell genomics for the masses

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Microbial communities are rapidly sequenced at the single-cell level using droplet microfluidics.

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Figure 1: A workflow for droplet microfluidic single-cell genome sequencing.

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The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute is a User Facility supported by the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231.

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