mSystems (Aug 2021)

Ultra-resolution Metagenomics: When Enough Is Not Enough

  • Falk Hildebrand

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1128/mSystems.00881-21
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 6, no. 4

Abstract

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Technological advances in community sequencing have steadily increased the taxonomic resolution at which microbes can be delineated. In high-resolution metagenomics, bacterial strains can now be resolved, enhancing medical microbiology and the description of microbial evolution in vivo