Metagenomics allows exploration of aspects of a microbial community that were inaccessible by cultivation-based approaches targeting single microbes. Many new microbial taxa and genes have been discovered using metagenomics, but different kinds of "unknowns" still remain in a microbiome experiment. We discuss here whether and how it is possible to deal with them.
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Thomas, A. M., & Segata, N. (2019, June 12). Multiple levels of the unknown in microbiome research. BMC Biology. BioMed Central Ltd. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-019-0667-z
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