Gut Microbe Studies Expand Bacterial Culture Collections, Reference Genomes

Feb 04, 2019

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NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – Two independent research teams have cultured and characterized thousands of bacterial strains from fecal samples of healthy humans, generating reference genomes for hundreds of organisms not sequenced in the past.

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