Making maps is hard. Even though we’ve been making maps for hundreds of years, it is still hard. Making good looking maps is really hard. We published a map that is both beautiful and tells a story, and this is the story of how we made that map.
But a figure like this does not appear immediately, it takes work to get something to look this good, and needless to say it wasn’t me that made it look so great!
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Our paper on the global phylogeography of crAssphage is published in Nature Microbiology. You can read the paper at the Nature Microbiology website or on ReadCube. The paper garnered international press attention, and here we have summarized the press coverage.
Please let Rob know if you are aware of any other reports that are not included here.
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There is lots of crAssphage in the world, and there are lots of metagenomes in the sequence read archive. Can we find those metagenomes that do, or do not, have crAssphage in them in the SRA? Lets try…