Accurate phylogenetic classification of variable-length DNA fragments

Nature Methods

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 63-72

  McHardy, Alice Carolyn ^a   Martín, Héctor García ^b   Tsirigos, Aristotelis ^a   Hugenholtz, Philip ^b   Rigoutsos, Isidore ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b U S DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BURKHOLDERIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENETIC ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; SHEWANELLA; TAXONOMY;

ANIMALS; ARCHAEA; ARTHROPODS; ASCOMYCOTA; BACTERIA; CHORDATA; DNA; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; GENOME; GENOMICS; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; PHYLOGENY; SARGASSUM; SOFTWARE VALIDATION;

EID: 33845957530     PISSN: 15487091     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmeth976     Document Type: Article

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