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Figure 1. Ecogenomics is a field of research where the largest and smallest levels of studying life meet.
Figure 2. Different steps in ecogenomics research from a metagenomics perspective.
Figure 3. Different steps in ecogenomics research with a model organism (MOE) approach.
Figure 4. The upper part of this picture (a) illustrates the order in which research questions often occur when the metagenomics approach is selected. The lower part of this picture (b) illustrates various societal promises, and corresponds to questions in the upper half that first need to be answered. As depicted here, metagenomics allows a focus on nature mining in all phases of the research.
Figure 5. As shown in Figure 4, the upper part (a) in this figure illustrates the order in which research questions often occur when MOE research is performed. The lower part of this picture (b) illustrates various societal promises, and corresponds to questions in the upper half that first need to be answered. As depicted here, nature conservation can be the focus directly at the start of these projects (but this depends heavily on the model organism selected). Nature mining is possible, but other questions need to be answered first.
