Get the most out of your metagenome: computational analysis of environmental sequence data

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 490-498

  Raes, Jeroen ^a   Foerstner, Konrad Ulrich ^a   Bork, Peer ^a  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL GENOME; COMPARATIVE MOLECULAR FIELD ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; METAGENOME; MICROBIAL GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROFLORA; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; REVIEW; SEQUENCE DATABASE;

AMINOHYDROLASES; BIODIVERSITY; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; GENOMICS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 35748976529     PISSN: 13695274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2007.09.001     Document Type: Review

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