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Ables participant: Woodcroft group, Centre for Microbiome Research, Queensland University of Technology

Project title

Recovery of novel microbial genomes with Bin Chicken

Collaborators and funding

Contact(s)

Project description and aims

Despite large-scale genome recovery efforts, most microbial species lack a reference genome. We aim to produce novel microbial reference genomes from public metagenomes via new techniques. To this end we have created Bin Chicken, a tool that predicts the best samples to combine for coassembly, allowing recovery of novel genomes.

How is ABLeS supporting this work?

This work is supported through the reference data generation scheme provided by ABLeS. The supports includes 5 TB long term storage and 100 KSUs per quarter.

Expected outputs enabled by participation in ABLeS

Microbial genomes linked to SRA metadata will be made available on a public database such as NCBI. Biogeography of newly recovered species will be published in a research article and on the Sandpiper website. Publication of results (both direct and downstream) in academic journals. In each case, the ABLeS scheme will be acknowledged.


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