Plastic-degrading potential across the global microbiome correlates with recent pollution trends

Link to paper: 10.1128/mBio.02155-21

Figure. Depiction of plastic-degrading enzymes across the global microbiome obtained by constructing HMM models of known plastic-degrading enzymes and querying them across metagenomic sequencing datasets. We observed 11,906 enzyme hits in the ocean and 18,119 in the soil datasets, with the potential to degrade 10 and 9 different plastic types, respectively.

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This repository contains scripts to reproduce the analysis and figures. The data is available at , extract the archive to a folder named 'data'.

Dependencies are provided in the conda environment.yml file in the 'docs' folder.