Metagenomic Approaches for Understanding New Concepts in Microbial Science

Figure 1

Timeline of the major advancements in metagenomics. Timeline highlighting important developments in the field over the last 40 years, since Sanger sequencing (M1), and over the last 30 years, since the first published metagenomic experiment (M2). The main metagenomic milestones are shown as M1–M11 (all of them are highlighted in the text where they were mentioned).