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  • noun genetics all the genetic material present in an environmental sample, consisting of the genomes of many individual organisms.

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meta- +‎ genome

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Examples

  • A detailed understanding of human biology will require not only knowledge of the human genome but also of the human metagenome, defined here as the ensemble of the genomes of human-associated microorganisms.

    MetaHIT Promises Answers for the Gut Steve Carper 2008

  • Hugenholtz and Warnecke began sifting through the questions raised by the metagenome.

    Gut Reactions 2008

  • Hugenholtz and Warnecke began sifting through the questions raised by the metagenome.

    Gut Reactions 2008

  • In silico simulations of metagenome sequencing are cheap, quick, and easy, The type of in vitro simulation presented here is comparatively expensive, difficult, time-consuming, but captures bias in the metagenomic sampling procedure more faithfully than in silico simulations.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Jenna L. Morgan et al. 2010

  • In constructing a synthetic community and sequencing its metagenome, we encountered several sources of observation bias that likely affect most metagenomic experiments to date and present challenges for comparative metagenomic studies.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Jenna L. Morgan et al. 2010

  • Lin W, Meyerdierks A, Kube M, Katzmann E, et al. (2009) Toward cloning of the magnetotactic metagenome: identification of magnetosome island gene clusters in uncultivated magnetotactic bacteria from different aquatic sediments.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Jean-Baptiste Rioux et al. 2010

  • Farias and her team are looking for Argentine funding to produce a metagenome of the bacteria, an advanced study which provides a DNA sequence of the entire microbe colony.

    Reuters: Top News 2010

  • Characteristics of organisms in the simulated metagenome.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Jenna L. Morgan et al. 2010

  • It is difficult to make further conclusions regarding the other species contributing to the metagenome of CPC98 given the large number of unidentified sequences, reflecting the short Illumina GA read length used in this experiment

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Ceiridwen J. Edwards et al. 2010

  • The Enz+pyrosequenced metagenome differs from the Enz+Sanger metagenome in the types of reads that failed taxonomic assignment.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Jenna L. Morgan et al. 2010

  • Sequencing the entire contents of a sample will yield a metagenome: snippets of genetic code from a multitude of organisms, including the human host, the microorganisms of interest and microbial contaminants.

    Germs, genes and soil: tales of pathogens past Amber Dance 2023

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