This month’s Genome Watch highlights the use of metagenomics to survey urban waste waters as a proxy for studying the gut microbiota in the local population and discusses how predictive models based on this data could inform public health.
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Iraola, G., Kumar, N. Surveying what’s flushed away. Nat Rev Microbiol 16, 456 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41579-018-0047-7
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