Every fifth published metagenome is not available to science.

Have you ever sought to use metagenomic DNA sequences reported in scientific publications? Were you successful? Here, we reveal that metagenomes from no fewer than 20% of the papers found in our literature search, published between 2016 and 2019, were not deposited in a repository or were simply ina...

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Main Authors: Ester M Eckert, Andrea Di Cesare, Diego Fontaneto, Thomas U Berendonk, Helmut Bürgmann, Eddie Cytryn, Despo Fatta-Kassinos, Andrea Franzetti, D G Joakim Larsson, Célia M Manaia, Amy Pruden, Andrew C Singer, Nikolina Udikovic-Kolic, Gianluca Corno
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-04-01
Series:PLoS Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000698