Sheridan, Paul OMeng, YiyuBodington, DylanCoutts, DavidWilliams, Tom A.Gubry-Rangin, Cecile2025-12-182025Sheridan, P O, Meng, Y, Bodington, D, Coutts, D, Williams, T A & Gubry-Rangin, C 2025, 'Genomic recovery from rare terrestrial microbes enabled by DNA-based GC-fractionation', ISME Communications, vol. 5, no. 1, ycaf152. https://doi.org/10.1093/ismeco/ycaf1522730-6151ORCID: /0000-0002-5937-2496/work/191422035ORCID: /0000-0002-5752-8725/work/199810634https://hdl.handle.net/2164/26566Open access via the OUP agreement The authors would also like to acknowledge the support of the Maxwell computer cluster funded by the University of Aberdeen. In addition, we acknowledge Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC) as the custodian of the Aberdeen Cropping Experimental (ACE) Platform which hosts both the pHoenix and Tulloch Organic Rotation long-term experiments (LTE’s) and was the source of some of the soil samples used as part of this study. The maintenance of these LTEs is funded, in part, from the Scottish Government’s RESAS programme (Healthy soil for a Green Recovery). For the purpose of open access, the authors have applied a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licence to any Author Accepted Manuscript version arising from this submission.121946285engGC-contentbisbenzimidegenomeMAG16S rRNA generarelow abundancebacteriaarchaeaAOAQH426 GeneticsMicrobiologySupplementary DataDASLinkQH426Journal article10.1093/ismeco/ycaf152