Krinos, A., N. Cohen, M.J. Follows and H. Alexander (2023), Reverse engineering environmental meta-transcriptomes clarifies best practices for eukaryotic assembly, BMC Bioinformatics, doi: 10.1186/s12859-022-05121-y
Description:
Diverse communities of microbial eukaryotes in the global ocean provide a variety of essential ecosystem services, from primary production and carbon flow through trophic transfer to cooperation via symbioses. Increasingly, these communities are being understood through the lens of omics tools, which enable high-throughput processing of diverse communities. Metatranscriptomics offers an understanding of near real-time gene expression in microbial eukaryotic communities, providing a window into community metabolic activity.