The way to uncovering and utilizing marine microbial resources

Abstract

Recently, Chen et al. published their breakthrough results on a marine microbial genomic catalog and genetic potentials in bioprospecting in Nature, providing unprecedented opportunities for development and utilization of genetic resources of marine microorganisms. To highlight this article, we summarized and highlighted their breakthroughs seriatim

Keywords

• Metagenome
• MAG
• Global ocean microbiome genome catalogue
• CRISPR-Cas9
• Antimicrobial peptide
• PETases