Microsynteny is a powerful front for microbial strain tracking
Genomic diversity within species can be driven by both point mutations and larger structural variations, but so far, strain-tracking approaches have focused mostly on the former. In a recent issue of Nature Biotechnology, Ley and colleagues<sup>1</sup> introduce SynTracker, a tool designed for scalable strain tracking with microsynteny in low-coverage metagenomic settings.
Authors
- Tal Korem (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0609-0858)
- Peiwen Cai (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4774-4392)
Institutions
- Columbia University Irving Medical Center (US)
- Columbia University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Cell Reports Methods
- Published
- 2024-09-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crmeth.2024.100862
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.23