CRISPR spacers are known to assemble poorly from metaG, so you need to look at the reads. Here we built a high-throughput tool (code.jgi.doe.gov/SRoux/spacerextractor) and mined ~800 million spacers from SRA metaG reads, all linked to a repeat and a sample (with taxonomy and metadata when possible).

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