CLOTU: An online pipeline for processing and clustering of 454 amplicon reads into OTUs followed by taxonomic annotation

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Kumar, Surendra ^a   Carlsen, Tor ^a   Mevik, Bjørn Helge ^a   Enger, Pål ^a   Blaalid, Rakel ^a   Shalchian Tabrizi, Kamran ^a   Kauserud, Håvard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED DATA PROCESSING; BIOINFORMATICS APPLICATIONS; BIOINFORMATICS SERVICES; COMPUTER CLUSTERS; DNA SEQUENCE DATA; ENVIRONMENTAL SAMPLE; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; HIGH-THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOINFORMATICS; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; DATA PROCESSING; PIPELINES; THROUGHPUT;

PIPELINE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

OTUS;

FUNGAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FUNGUS; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; METHODOLOGY;

CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FUNGI; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; SOFTWARE;

EID: 79956216816     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-12-182     Document Type: Article

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