Here, Johansen et al. develop an approach, Phages from Metagenomics Binning (PHAMB), that allows the binning of thousands of viral genomes directly from bulk metagenomics data, while simultaneously enabling clustering of viral genomes into accurate taxonomic viral populations, unveiling viral-microbial host interactions in the gut.
- Joachim Johansen
- Damian R. Plichta
- Simon Rasmussen
