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ArticleEnvironmental microbiome2024

From soil to sequence: filling the critical gap in genome-resolved metagenomics is essential to the future of soil microbial ecology.

Winston E Anthony, Steven D Allison, Caitlin M Broderick, Luciana Chavez Rodriguez, Alicia Clum, Hugh Cross, Emiley Eloe-Fadrosh, Sarah Evans, Dawson Fairbanks, Rachel Gallery and 10 more

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Article in Environmental microbiome, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

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23 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

20 authors.

Winston E AnthonyPacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, 99354, USA. winston.anthony@pnnl.gov.
Steven D AllisonUniversity of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA.
Caitlin M BroderickW.K. Kellogg Biological Station, Michigan State University, Hickory Corners, MI, USA.
Luciana Chavez RodriguezUniversity of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA.
Alicia ClumLawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA.
Hugh CrossNational Ecological Observatory Network - Battelle, Boulder, CO, USA.
Emiley Eloe-FadroshLawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA.
Sarah EvansW.K. Kellogg Biological Station, Michigan State University, Hickory Corners, MI, USA.
Dawson FairbanksUniversity of California Riverside, Riverside, CA, USA.
Rachel GalleryThe University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA.
Júlia Brandão GontijoUniversity of California Davis, Davis, CA, USA.
Jennifer JonesW.K. Kellogg Biological Station, Michigan State University, Hickory Corners, MI, USA.
Jason McDermottPacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, 99354, USA.
Jennifer Pett-RidgeLawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, USA.
Sydne RecordUniversity of Maine, Orono, ME, USA.
Jorge Luiz Mazza RodriguesLawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA.
William Rodriguez-ReilloHarvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Katherine L ShekUniversity of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA.
Tina Takacs-VesbachUniversity of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA.
Jeffrey L BlanchardUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, USA. jlb@umass.edu.

Funding

U.S. Department of Energy 89233218CNA000001U.S. Department of Energy DE-AC02-05CH11231U.S. Department of Energy DE-AC05-76RL01830
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Soil microbiomes are heterogeneous, complex microbial communities. Metagenomic analysis is generating vast amounts of data, creating immense challenges in sequence assembly and analysis. Although advances in technology have resulted in the ability to easily collect large amounts of sequence data, soil samples containing thousands of unique taxa are often poorly characterized. These challenges reduce the usefulness of genome-resolved metagenomic (GRM) analysis seen in other fields of microbiology, such as the creation of high quality metagenomic assembled genomes and the adoption of genome scale modeling approaches. The absence of these resources restricts the scale of future research, limiting hypothesis generation and the predictive modeling of microbial communities. Creating publicly available databases of soil MAGs, similar to databases produced for other microbiomes, has the potential to transform scientific insights about soil microbiomes without requiring the computational resources and domain expertise for assembly and binning.

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FAIR Data PrinciplesGenome Resolved MetagenomicsHybrid AssemblyMicrobiome Assembled GenomesSoil Microbiome

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PMCPMC11295382

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