You have run your binning pipeline and recovered a set of metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs). Now comes a critical question: how good are they, and which ones can you actually use for downstream analysis? MAG quality…
Metagenome-assembled genomes, or MAGs, are one of the most useful outputs of shotgun metagenomics. Instead of only asking which organisms are present, MAGs allow researchers to reconstruct draft genomes directly from complex microbial communities. This…
Taxonomic profiling is one of the most common tasks in shotgun metagenomics. After sequencing a microbiome or environmental sample, one of the first questions is usually simple: Which organisms are present, and in what relative…
Metagenome assembly is one of the most useful steps in shotgun metagenomics, but it is also one of the most frustrating. You may start with millions of high-quality reads, run a standard assembler, and still…
Metagenomics can generate powerful insights into microbial communities, from taxonomic composition to metabolic potential and genome recovery. But it is also one of the easiest omics approaches to get wrong. Poor experimental design, inappropriate sequencing…
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