New paper from Julia Salzman in BioRxiv:
Ultra-efficient, unified discovery from microbial sequencing with SPLASH and precise statistical assembly
Bacteria comprise > 12% of Earth’s biomass and profoundly impact human and planetary health.1 Many key biological functions of microbes, and functions differentiating strains, are conferred or modified by genome plasticity including mobilization of genetic elements, phage integration, and CRISPR arrays….