Insights into the global freshwater virome

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Viruses are by far the most abundant life forms on this planet. Yet, the full viral diversity remains mostly unknown, especially in environments like freshwater. Therefore, we aimed to study freshwater viruses in a global context. To this end, we downloaded 380 publicly available viral metagenomes (>1 TB). More than 60% of these metagenomes were discarded based on their levels of cellular contamination assessed...

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