UniFrac: An effective distance metric for microbial community comparison

ISME Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 169-172

  Lozupone, Catherine ^a   Lladser, Manuel E ^a   Knights, Dan ^a   Stombaugh, Jesse ^a   Knight, Rob ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BACTERIUM; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; PHYLOGENY; STANDARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; SOFTWARE;

EID: 78751575501     PISSN: 17517362     EISSN: 17517370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2010.133     Document Type: Note

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