Venn diagram of shared and unique publicly available bacterial mOTUs originating from various genome categories. (IMAGE)

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Venn diagram of shared and unique publicly available bacterial mOTUs originating from various genome categories.

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Venn diagram of shared and unique publicly available bacterial metagenome-only operational taxonomic units (mOTUs) originating from various genome categories. The gray circle represents 127,766 potentially uncaptured “species” in the publicly available genomic data in the NCBI and IMG/M databases.

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Image from Wu D, Seshadri R et al. Sci Adv. 2025. CC BY.

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