**Metagenomics — A Technological Drift in Bioremediation**

Pratap Devarapalli and Ranjith N. Kumavath

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#### **Abstract**

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Nature has its ways of resolving imbalances in its environment and microorganisms are one of the best tools of nature to eliminate toxic pollutants. The process of eliminat‐ ing pollutants using microbes is termed Bioremediation. Metagenomics is a strategic approach for analysing microbial communities at a genomic level. It is one of the best technological upgradation to bioremediation. Identification and screening of metage‐ nomesfromthepollutedenvironmentsarecrucialinametagenomicstudy.Thischapter emphasizes recent multiple case studies explaining the approaches of metagenomics in bioremediation in different contaminated environments such as soil, water etc. The secondsectionexplainsdifferentsequencesandfunction-basedmetagenomicstrategies and tools starting from providing a detailed view of metagenomic screening, FACS, and multiple advanced metagenomic sequencing strategies dealing with the preva‐ lent metagenomes in bioremediation and giving a list of different widespread metagenomic organisms and their respective projects. Eventually, we have provided a detailedviewofdifferentmajorbioinformatic tools anddatasetsmostprevalentlyused in metagenomic data analysis and processing during metagenomic bioremediation.

**Keywords:** Metagenomics, Bioremediation, Microbial Metagenomes, Bioinformat‐ ics, Pollution
