Metagenomic analyses: Past and future trends

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1153-1161

  Simon, Carola ^a   Daniel, Rolf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AS-SOILS; DATA SETS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROCESS; EXTREME ENVIRONMENT; FUNCTIONAL DIVERSITY; FUTURE TRENDS; HUMAN BODIES; INDEPENDENT ASSESSMENT; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; METAGENOMES; METAGENOMIC ANALYSIS; METAGENOMIC DNA; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; OCEAN WATER; SEQUENCE DATA;

ECOLOGY; ENZYMES;

NUCLEIC ACIDS;

DATA SET; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENOMICS; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PROTEIN; TAXONOMY;

DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG DEVELOPMENT; ECOSYSTEM; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; HUMAN; METAGENOMICS; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIAL CONSORTIUM; PROTEOMICS; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

DRUG DISCOVERY; ECOSYSTEM; GENE LIBRARY; HUMANS; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIAL CONSORTIA; PROTEOMICS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA;

EID: 79953210780     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02345-10     Document Type: Review

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