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Wondering about the infective capacity of the phages that make up the gut viromes you're analyzing? Ling Deng (Univ. of Copenhagen) and colleagues have developed an efficient protocol for the extraction of infective viruses from low volume fecal samples. They detect infective viruses from the same samples used for metagenomic sequencing, and they report extracting 48 viromes per working day, with less than 4 h of hands-on time!