Unveiled: Earth's Viral Diversity
Wednesday, August 17, 2016 - 14:01
in Biology & Nature
Plumbing the Earth's microbial diversity requires learning more about poorly-studied relationships between microbes and the viruses that infect them, impacting how they regulate global cycles. Using the world's largest collection of assembled metagenomic datasets, DOE JGI researchers uncovered over 125,000 partial and complete viral genomes.