Wellcome Sanger Institute company blog

Over 140k virus species in the human gut, half of which are new to science

by (Sanger webteam) sanger.ac.uk

Researchers at the Wellcome Sanger Institute and EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) explored and catalogued the biodiversity of the viral species found in 28,060 public human gut metagenomes and 2,898 bacterial isolate genomes cultured from the human gut

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