Sketching the SRA: experiment-wide similarity search across 4.8 million metagenomes
Roland Faure, Adrita Hossain Nakshi, Md. Hasin Abrar, Rayan Chikhi, Téo Lemane, Mohammad Mohsen Hajari Taheri, Stephanie Won, Haonan Wu, David Koslicki, Paul Medvedev
The paper introduces resources for large-scale metagenome comparison in the SRA, revealing trends in microbial discovery and improving assembly quality.
bioRxiv · Oct 8, 2026 · PreprintBioinformatics