Figure 2.

Summary of a marine viral meta‐omic pipeline. Step (1): experimental design and protocol. This step is often placed little importance in the meta‐omics study but could provide substantial information if carried out carefully. Step (2): different approaches to capturing viral nucleic acid provide discrepant information about marine RNA viruses and their hosts. Step (3): various and personalized analyses after assembling virus genomes. Step (4): detailed explanation in the context of viruses, hosts, and environment and inference from a global view.