Cover of April 2015 <i>Genome Research</i> Journal (IMAGE)

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Cover of April 2015 <i>Genome Research</i> Journal

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The cover of the April 2015 issue of Genome Research refers to a study led by longtime DOE Joint Genome Institute collaborator Jill Banfield of Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley. Using metagenome data generated from the Berkeley Lab-led DOE subsurface biogeochemistry field study site in Rifle, Colorado, the team compared two ways of using the next generation Illumina sequencing machines, one of which -- TruSeq Synthetic Long-Reads -- produced significantly longer reads than the other. They evaluated the accuracy of the genomes reconstructed from the sequences produced by the two Illumina technologies to learn more about the microbes present in lower amounts than others and better determine the species richness of the metagenome samples.

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