Functional metagenomics: Recent advances and future challenges

Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering Reviews

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 335-352

  Chistoserdova, Ludmila ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA;

ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBES; FUTURE CHALLENGES; GENOMICS ANALYSIS; HIGH RESOLUTION; LABELLING TECHNOLOGY; LARGE AMOUNTS; LOWER COMPLEXITY; METAGENOMICS; METATRANSCRIPTOMICS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES;

GENES;

BROXURIDINE; STABLE ISOTOPE;

BIOTECHNOLOGY; GENOME; GENOMICS; HUMAN; LABELING INDEX; METAGENOMICS; NONHUMAN; PROTEOMICS; REACTOR; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTOMICS;

EID: 77749243418     PISSN: 02648725     EISSN: 20465556     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5661/bger-26-335     Document Type: Article

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