V-Xtractor: An open-source, high-throughput software tool to identify and extract hypervariable regions of small subunit (16S/18S) ribosomal RNA gene sequences

Journal of Microbiological Methods

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 250-253

  Hartmann, Martin ^a   Howes, Charles G ^a   Abarenkov, Kessy ^b   Mohn, William W ^a   Nilsson, R Henrik ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Hidden Markov Models; High throughput sequencing; HMMER; Hypervariable regions; Software; SSU rRNA sequences

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; FUNGAL RNA; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA 16S; RNA 18S;

ARCHAEAL GENE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FUNGAL GENE; GENETIC DATABASE; HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA EXTRACTION; RNA SEQUENCE; SEARCH ENGINE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; DNA, ARCHAEAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FUNGI; GENETICS, MICROBIAL; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SOFTWARE;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 77957860163     PISSN: 01677012     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mimet.2010.08.008     Document Type: Article

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