Quadrupling the protein family space with global metagenomics
Eleni Aplakidou, Fotis A. Baltoumas, Maria N Chasapi, Efthimia Lamari, Ilias Georgakopoulos‐Soares, Evangelos Karatzas, Ioannis Iliopoulos, Aydın Buluç, Robert D. Finn, Antônio Pedro Camargo, Nikos C. Kyrpides, Georgios A. Pavlopoulos
The paper identifies millions of new protein families from global metagenomic data, expanding the known repertoire of protein families and revealing potential novel functions.
bioRxiv · Dec 23, 2025 · PreprintBioinformatics