Microbial community profiling for human microbiome projects: Tools, techniques, and challenges

Genome Research

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1141-1152

  Hamady, Micah ^a   Knight, Rob ^b  

^a UCB 450   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

ANALYTIC METHOD; DATA ANALYSIS; HABITAT; HAND; HUMAN; INTESTINE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIOME; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA FINGERPRINTING; RNA SEQUENCE; SAMPLING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TAXON; TAXONOMY;

GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMANS; MICROBIOME; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

EID: 67650021209     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.085464.108     Document Type: Review

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