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Metagenomics meets read clouds

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The assembly of individual genomes from complex microbial communities is improved by sequencing of barcoded fragments.

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Figure 1: Key steps in read-cloud metagenomics.

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  1. Jacqueline Goordial is at the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Science, East Boothbay, Maine, USA.,

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  2. Jennifer Ronholm is at the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Macdonald Campus, McGill University. Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, Québec, Canada.,

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Goordial, J., Ronholm, J. Metagenomics meets read clouds. Nat Biotechnol 36, 1049–1051 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.4284

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