Moreno Zolfo, Andrea Silverj, Aitor Blanco-Miguez, Paolo Manghi, Omar Rota-Stabelli, Vitor Heidrich, Joardan Jensen, Sagun Maharjan, Eric Franzosa, Cristina Menni, Alessia Visconti, Federica Pinto, Matteo Ciciani, Curtis Huttenhower, Anna Cereseto, Francesco Asnicar, Hiroaki Kitano, Takuji Yamada, Nicola Segata
Viruses are an abundant and crucial component of the human microbiome, but accurately discovering them via metagenomics is still challenging. Currently, the available viral reference genomes poorly represent the diversity in microbiome samples, and expanding such a set of viral references is difficult. As a result, many viruses are still undetectable through metagenomics even when considering the power of de novo metagenomic assembly and binning, as viruses lack universal markers. Here, we describe a novel approach to catalog new viral members of the human gut microbiome and show how the resulting resource improves metagenomic analyses...
February 19, 2024: bioRxiv