Erratum: In silico identification of bacterial seaweed-degrading bioplastic producers

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‘Interestingly, current seaweed manufacturing only uses 10–40 % of the raw material, depending on the process and targeted product(s), and generates a significant amount of solid and liquid wastes [15].’

‘Co-occurrence networks and hierarchal edge bundling was performed with networkX [46] and graph-tools [47].’

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‘For the green seaweed Ulva sp., several treatments to release monosaccharides for subsequent production of PHAs have been considered, including acid hydrolysis [39], subcritical water extraction [35], and hydrothermal extraction of cellulose and starch [38].’

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