The GAAS metagenomic tool and its estimations of viral and microbial average genome size in four major biomes

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2009, Pages

  Angly, Florent E ^a,b   Willner, Dana ^a   Prieto Davó, Alejandra ^a   Edwards, Robert A ^a,b,c   Schmieder, Robert ^b   Vega Thurber, Rebecca ^d   Antonopoulos, Dionysios A ^c   Barott, Katie ^a   Cottrell, Matthew T ^e   Desnues, Christelle ^f   Dinsdale, Elizabeth A ^a   Furlan, Mike ^a   Haynes, Matthew ^a   Henn, Matthew R ^g   Hu, Yongfei ^h   Kirchman, David L ^e   McDole, Tracey ^a   McPherson, John D ⁱ   Meyer, Folker ^c   Miller, R Michael ^c   Mundt, Egbert ^j   Naviaux, Robert K ^k   Rodriguez Mueller, Beltran ^a,b   Stevens, Rick ^c   Wegley, Linda ^a   Zhang, Lixin ^h   Zhu, Baoli ^h   Rohwer, Forest ^a   more..

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^f AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^g BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

^h INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (China)

ⁱ ONTARIO INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH   (Canada)

^j UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GALLIUM ARSENIDE; GENES; III-V SEMICONDUCTORS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM;

AVERAGE SIZE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; GENOME LENGTH; GENOME SIZES; METAGENOMES; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SAMPLING BIAS; TEXTUAL FORMAT;

BENCHMARKING;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BIOME; COMPUTER PROGRAM; GENOME RELATIVE BBUNDANCE AND AVERAGE SIZE SOFTWARE; GENOME SIZE; METAGENOMICS; NONHUMAN; SAMPLING ERROR; VIRUS GENOME; DNA SEQUENCE; META ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEIC ACID DATABASE;

DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOME, VIRAL; METAGENOMICS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 74549198200     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000593     Document Type: Article

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