Insights from 20 years of bacterial genome sequencing.

"indicators of the genomes in process include the genomes online database (gold) (pagani et al ) which had 47083 prokaryotic genomes and the mg-rast system listed 152927 metagenomes of which 23242 are publically accessible.; as of october 2014 the gold (pagani et al ) contains544 metagenomics studies associated with 6726 metagenome samples and mg-rast system holds150039 metagenomic samples of which 20415 are publically available."

"Conflict of interest The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest."

"We gratefully acknowledge funding support for this research by the Genomic Science Program, US Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Science, Biological and Environmental Research (BER) as part of the Plant Microbe Interfaces Scientific Focus Area (http://pmi.ornl.gov) and the BER’s BioEnergy Science Center (BESC) at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (contract DE-PS02-06ER64304). Oak Ridge National Laboratory is managed by UT-Battelle, LLC, for the US Department of Energy under contract DE-AC05-00OR22725."