{
  "id": 13030553,
  "title": "Nation-scale recovery of complete environmental plasmids pushes the boundaries of plasmid diversity through long-read sequencing",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/08/nation-scale-recovery-of-complete-environmental-plasmids-pushes-the",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-10-08T00:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "bioRxiv",
    "slug": "biorxiv",
    "url": "https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.06.756670v1?rss=1"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Plasmids are important agents of prokaryotic evolution and yet existing reference databases remain biased towards cultivable species, limiting our knowledge of their function and ecology in the environment. Here we present a major expansion of known plasmid diversity, through curation and annotation of 8,744 topologically complete plasmids from 9,972 short- and 154 long-read metagenomes as part…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}