title: [Main bottleneck and developments of metagenomic technology].
abstract: This review analyzed the main bottleneck of metagenomic technology on construction and screening of environmental library, discussed the recent developments towards overcoming the main bottleneck. Finally, the enormous scope and potential for both fundamental microbial ecology and biotechnological development of metagenomics was highlighted.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Applied and Environmental Microbiology, School of Life Science, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China. jiangyxia@yahoo.com.cn
authors.forename: Yun-xia
authors.initials: YX
authors.lastname: Jiang
authors.forename: Chun-xiang
authors.initials: CX
authors.lastname: Ai
mesh_terms: D004463:Ecology; D016680:Genome, Bacterial; D015698:Genomic Library; D023281:Genomics / Q000379:methods*; D012987:Soil / Q000032:analysis; D012988:Soil Microbiology
chemical_list: D012987:Soil