Reconstructing ocean life: metagenome-assembled genomes in marine research

This webinar examines reconstruction and use of marine metagenome-assembled genomes. The first part introduces the Ocean Microbiomics Database as a standardized resource for prokaryotic genome-resolved analysis, including co-abundance-based reconstruction, contextual metadata, and relationships between ecological patterns and microbial genomes. The second part considers why eukaryotic genomes are harder to recover: their complexity, low abundance, and limited markers and reference sequences complicate assembly and classification. Participants will compare reconstruction approaches, explore the database, and consider tools and steps for recovering eukaryotic genomes. The session serves academic and industrial researchers developing marine-microbiome applications and infrastructure teams managing samples, data, and discovery resources.