A “Cultural” Renaissance: Genomics Breathes New Life into an Old Craft

ABSTRACT Sometimes, to move ahead, you must take a look at where you have been. Culturing microbes is a foundational underpinning of microbiology. Before genome sequencing, researchers spent countless hours tediously deducing the nutritional requirements of bacterial isolates and tinkering with medi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Paul Carini
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2019-06-01
Series:mSystems
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Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mSystems.00092-19