WebMGA: A customizable web server for fast metagenomic sequence analysis

BMC Genomics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Wu, Sitao ^a   Zhu, Zhengwei ^a   Fu, Liming ^a   Niu, Beifang ^a   Li, Weizhong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC DATABASE; INTERNET; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIOME; OPEN READING FRAME; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TAXONOMY; WEB BROWSER; BIOLOGY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; METHODOLOGY;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; INTERNET; METAGENOMICS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOFTWARE;

EID: 80052606131     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-12-444     Document Type: Article

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