Advantages and Limits of Metagenomic Assembly and Binning of a Giant Virus

Advantages and Limits of Metagenomic Assembly and Binning of a Giant Virus

The discovery of large and giant nucleocytoplasmic large DNA viruses (NCLDV) with genomes in the megabase range and equipped with a wide variety of features typically associated with cellular organisms was one of the most unexpected, intriguing, and spectacular breakthroughs in virology. Recent stud...

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Main Authors: Frederik Schulz, Julien Andreani, Rania Francis, Hadjer Boudjemaa, Jacques Yaacoub Bou Khalil, Janey Lee, Bernard La Scola, Tanja Woyke
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2020-06-01
Series:mSystems
Subjects:
giant viruses
metagenomics
ncldv
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1128/mSystems.00048-20

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https://doi.org/10.1128/mSystems.00048-20

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