A glut from the gut: Metagenomics takes a giant step foward

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 315-

  Walker, Alan ^a  

^a WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; DEGRADATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; ENTERITIS; FATTY ACID SYNTHESIS; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; INTESTINE FLORA; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROORGANISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY;

DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; METAGENOME; METAGENOMICS;

EID: 77951137124     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro2363     Document Type: Short Survey

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