Estimating DNA coverage and abundance in metagenomes using a gamma approximation

Bioinformatics

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 295-301

  Hooper, Sean D ^a   Dalevi, Daniel ^b   Pati, Amrita ^a   Mavromatis, Konstantinos ^a   Ivanova, Natalia N ^a   Kyrpides, Nikos C ^a  

^a DOE JOINT GENOME INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

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EID: 77949524553     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 14602059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btp687     Document Type: Article

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