Metagenomics for studying unculturable microorganisms: Cutting the Gordian knot

Genome Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2005, Pages

  Schloss, Patrick D ^a   Handelsman, Jo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; RNA 16S;

ACID MINE DRAINAGE; BIOFILM; CALCULATION; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CLUSTER; GENOMICS; LEPTOSPIRA; METABOLOMICS; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; MICROBIAL GENETICS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PROKARYOTE; PROTEOMICS; SEQUENCE DATABASE; SHORT SURVEY;

GENETICS, MICROBIAL; GENOMICS; OCEANS AND SEAS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

CELLULAR ORGANISMS; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 23944495106     PISSN: 14656906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2005-6-8-229     Document Type: Short Survey

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