Metagenomics, the application of random shotgun sequencing to environmental samples, is a powerful approach for characterizing microbial communities. However, this method only represents the cornerstone of what can be achieved using a range of complementary technologies such as transcriptomics, proteomics, cell sorting and microfluidics. Together, these approaches hold great promise for the study of microbial ecology and evolution. © 2007 BioMed Central Ltd.
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Warnecke, F., & Hugenholtz, P. (2007, December 28). Building on basic metagenomics with complementary technologies. Genome Biology. https://doi.org/10.1186/gb-2007-8-12-231
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