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= Viral metagenomics
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Viral metagenomics is a subfield of metagenomics that focuses specifically on the study of viral populations within environmental samples, organisms, or communities. It involves the use of high-throughput sequencing technologies to analyze a broad range of viral genomes present in a given sample, without the need for prior isolation and cultivation of the viruses.