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Review Building on basic metagenomics with complementary technologies Falk Warnecke and Philip Hugenholtz Address: Microbial Ecology Program, DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, CA 94598, USA. Correspondence: Philip Hugenholtz. Email: PHugenholtz@ Published: 28 December 2007 Genome Biology 2007, 8:231 (doi:10.1186/gb-2007-8-12-231) The electronic version of this article is the complete one and can be found online at /2007/8/12/231 ? 2007 BioMed Central Ltd Abstract Metagenomics, the application of random shotgun sequencing to environmental samples, is a powerful approach