Fig. 1: Rapid expansion of metagenomic-based virome studies and novel viral sequences over time. | Communications Biology

Fig. 1: Rapid expansion of metagenomic-based virome studies and novel viral sequences over time.

From: Improving the reporting of metagenomic virome-scale data

Fig. 1

In violet: The number of studies published in NCBI’s PubMed database each year from 2000 to 2023 that report metagenomic virus discovery/virome analyses [Search query: (metagenomic OR metatranscriptomic) AND (virus OR virome)]. In blue: The number of new virus organisms published in NCBI’s nucleotide database each year from 1 January 2000 to 31 December 2023, sorted by species name. Below the graph, key events in the development of metagenomics are indicated.

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