“As long as you can isolate a single cell, pick it from the environment, lyse it, you can generate millions of copies of that genome and gain access to the information inside that organism,” Woyke confirmed. “One of the key issues that still needs refining is the lysis step, since many microbes will not lyse with alkaline solutions, the most common agent for the job. But we are actively working on that.”
Sweet! Not the firs time, but even so...wow. I could think of all sorts of nifty applications once we have a very large data base of bacterial genomes.
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