Another recent one from the group out in Elementa: "Assembly-free short-read metagenomic maximum growth rate prediction". You can now use gRodon's metagenomic maximum growth rate prediction directly on short reads (no assembly required)
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Microbial maximum growth rates are key parameters in microbially explicit soil biogeochemical models that can also be estimated directly from genomes and metagenomes, therefore enabling model-data syn...