JMOTU and taxonerator: Turning DNA barcode sequences into annotated operational taxonomic units

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Jones, Martin ^a   Ghoorah, Anisah ^a,b   Blaxter, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b INRIA   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA MINING; DNA BARCODING; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GENETIC DATABASE; INTERNET; METAGENOMICS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; BUTTERFLY; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SMALL RIBOSOMAL SUBUNIT; SWIMMING; UNITED KINGDOM;

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; RIBOSOME RNA;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BATHING BEACHES; BIODIVERSITY; BUTTERFLIES; DNA BARCODING, TAXONOMIC; ECOSYSTEM; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; RIBOSOME SUBUNITS, SMALL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SCOTLAND; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 79955561412     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0019259     Document Type: Article

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