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ArticleNature methods2019

Protein-level assembly increases protein sequence recovery from metagenomic samples manyfold.

Martin Steinegger, Milot Mirdita, Johannes Söding

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Article in Nature methods, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 210 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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210 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors.

Martin SteineggerQuantitative and Computational Biology Group, Max-Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany. martin.steinegger@mpibpc.mpg.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8781-9753
Milot MirditaQuantitative and Computational Biology Group, Max-Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8637-6719
Johannes SödingQuantitative and Computational Biology Group, Max-Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany. soeding@mpibpc.mpg.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9642-8244

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The open-source de novo protein-level assembler, Plass ( https://plass.mmseqs.com ), assembles six-frame-translated sequencing reads into protein sequences. It recovers 2-10 times more protein sequences from complex metagenomes and can assemble huge datasets. We assembled two redundancy-filtered reference protein catalogs, 2 billion sequences from 640 soil samples (soil reference protein catalog) and 292 million sequences from 775 marine eukaryotic metatranscriptomes (marine eukaryotic reference catalog), the largest free collections of protein sequences.

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MetagenomicsAmino Acid SequenceCodonOpen Reading FramesProteinsCodonProteins

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