Sentences with phrase «called metagenomic sequencing»

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Rubin's used a metagenomic approach, incorporating fragments of Neandertal DNA into loops called plasmids, amplifying them in bacteria and then using known sequences of human DNA to isolate strands for sequencing.

Rubin introduced her to a then - novel discipline called metagenomics, which involves sequencing the collective genome of all the microbes in a given location.

The team also carried out a so - called metagenomic analysis, in which the genomes from all organisms in a sample are sequenced collectively; the great majority of genes they found coded for proteins never seen before.