RNA virus Journal Club is on!
🌳March 17th | Tuesday, 10 AM Berkeley time / 18 PM CET 🕰️
You've probably heard about the meta-virus resource? We will get to dive into metaVR database & huge viral diversity within thanks to @mattlabguy.bsky.social 🥳
All welcome! Details ⬇️
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Ingrida Olendraite
This is the equivalent of making overarching statements about microbial community based on cultured microorganisms. It's just not valid.
The amount of non viral DNA in a bulk metagenome is so overwhelming that no matter how deeply you sequence, you will never get a good representation. 3/n
It's been shown repeatedly that viruses from bulk metagenomes represent at best 2-3% of the viral community found in viromes (size selection for <0.2µ pre-sequencing), and it's not even necessarily the most abundant viruses that are represented in that subsample. 2/n
