Hi guys,
I have some metageonmics sequencing from environmental microbial samples and I did some analyses. I have found some of housekeeping functions (related to DNA replication etc.) are overabundant.
I would like to interpret that this may suggest high activities in microbial reproduction in situ.
My friend told me that this is only DNA, not necessarily being expressed. So, I shouldn't say that. Reviewers might not like it.
Do you guys have suggestions? I read some papers and a lot of people write as what I did. It seems not that bad. I know it is metagenomics from DNA and it is not metatranscriptomics from RNA. All of the over-representative functions/genes that I found may not be able to express.
Thanks,
I have some metageonmics sequencing from environmental microbial samples and I did some analyses. I have found some of housekeeping functions (related to DNA replication etc.) are overabundant.
I would like to interpret that this may suggest high activities in microbial reproduction in situ.
My friend told me that this is only DNA, not necessarily being expressed. So, I shouldn't say that. Reviewers might not like it.
Do you guys have suggestions? I read some papers and a lot of people write as what I did. It seems not that bad. I know it is metagenomics from DNA and it is not metatranscriptomics from RNA. All of the over-representative functions/genes that I found may not be able to express.
Thanks,
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