Identifying biologically relevant differences between metagenomic communities

Bioinformatics

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 715-721

  Parks, Donovan H ^a   Beiko, Robert G ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULIBACTER PHOSPHATIS;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BIOLOGY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC DATABASE; METAGENOME; METAGENOMICS; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

BASE SEQUENCE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, GENETIC; GENOME, BACTERIAL; METAGENOME; METAGENOMICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 77951945504     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 14602059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btq041     Document Type: Article

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