A Flood of Microbial Genomes–Do We Need More?

Niyaz Ahmed

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0005831

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A Flood of Microbial Genomes–Do We Need More?

Niyaz Ahmed

* E-mail: ahmed.nizi@gmail.com

Affiliation Pathogen Biology Laboratory, Department of Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India
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A Flood of Microbial Genomes–Do We Need More?

Niyaz Ahmed

Published: June 9, 2009
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0005831

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Posted by mlangill on 10 Jun 2009 at 15:23 GMT

Nice overview of the current challenges in handling the upcoming thousands of genomes. I thought the title was a bit misleading (I thought the article might have argued that we don't need more genomes), but overall it was still worth the read.

No competing interests declared.

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