PHACCS, an online tool for estimating the structure and diversity of uncultured viral communities using metagenomic information

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 6, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Angly, Florent ^a,b   Rodriguez Brito, Beltran ^b,c   Bangor, David ^b   McNairnie, Pat ^b   Breitbart, Mya ^b   Salamon, Peter ^b   Felts, Ben ^b   Nulton, James ^b   Mahaffy, Joseph ^b   Rohwer, Forest ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATIC TOOLS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURES; DIVERSITY INDEX; DNA SEQUENCE ASSEMBLY; METAGENOMIC ANALYSIS; MODEL PARAMETERS; ON-LINE TOOLS; STRUCTURE MODELING;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOINFORMATICS; ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS; SOCIAL SCIENCES; TOOLS; VIRUSES;

ESTIMATION;

CONTIG; DNA; DNA VIRUS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOINFORMATICS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; GENOMICS; GENOTYPE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; ONLINE ANALYSIS; ONLINE SYSTEM; PREDICTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VIROLOGY; BACTERIOPHAGE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; CONTIG MAPPING; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC VARIATION; INTERNET; METABOLISM; PROCEDURES; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE; STATISTICAL MODEL; VIRUS; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS GENOME;

PROKARYOTA;

ALGORITHMS; BACTERIOPHAGES; BIODIVERSITY; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CONTIG MAPPING; DATABASES, GENETIC; DNA; DNA VIRUSES; GENES, VIRAL; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, VIRAL; GENOTYPE; INTERNET; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION MAPPING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOFTWARE; VIRUSES;

EID: 19144363310     PISSN: 14712105     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-6-41     Document Type: Article

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