Long-read sequencing and chemical synthesis access previously hidden antibiotics

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This is a summary of: Burian, J. et al. Bioactive molecules unearthed by terabase-scale long-read sequencing of a soil metagenome. Nat. Biotechnol. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-025-02810-w (2025).