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Metagenomics for studying unculturable microorganisms: cutting the Gordian knot.

2005; Springer Science+Business Media; Volume: 6; Issue: 8 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1186/gb-2005-6-8-229

1465-6914

Patrick D. Schloss, Jo Handelsman,

Bacteriophages and microbial interactions

More than 99% of prokaryotes in the environment cannot be cultured in the laboratory, a phenomenon that limits our understanding of microbial physiology, genetics, and community ecology. One way around this problem is metagenomics, the culture-independent cloning and analysis of microbial DNA extracted directly from an environmental sample. Recent advances in shotgun sequencing and computational methods for genome assembly have advanced the field of metagenomics to provide glimpses into the life of uncultured microorganisms.