FastGroupII: A web-based bioinformatics platform for analyses of large 16S rDNA libraries

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 7, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Yu, Yanan ^a   Breitbart, Mya ^a   McNairnie, Pat ^a   Rohwer, Forest ^a,b  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

16S RDNA SEQUENCE; BIOINFORMATIC TOOLS; BIOINFORMATICS TOOLS; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; DIVERSITY INDEX; ENVIRONMENTAL SAMPLE; GROUPING ALGORITHM; HIGH-THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING;

LIBRARIES; TOOLS; WEBSITES;

BIOINFORMATICS;

DNA 16S; BACTERIAL DNA; RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; BIOINFORMATICS; CALCULATION; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORAL; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA LIBRARY; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING; GENETIC ALGORITHM; INTERNET; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; SEQUENCE DATABASE; STANDARDIZATION; ALGORITHM; BIOLOGY; EVALUATION STUDY; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; NUCLEIC ACID DATABASE; ONLINE SYSTEM; PROCEDURES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ANTHOZOA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE LIBRARY; INTERNET; ONLINE SYSTEMS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOFTWARE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 33644606606     PISSN: 14712105     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-7-57     Document Type: Article

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