From "contaminants" to data, the idea of using WGS bacterial reads to study liverwort associations started during a class I took during my PhD. Today it is published! Fun collaboration with @mickischill.bsky.social and @emehlferber.bsky.social. bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Off‐target metagenomics: Leveraging whole genome sequencing to study the bacteriome of the liverwort Calasterella californica
Premise The recovery of non-target organism reads, especially when whole organisms are sampled, constitutes a great opportunity for studying microbial communities. The increase in whole genome seque.....
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