Identification and removal of ribosomal RNA sequences from metatranscriptomes

Bioinformatics

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 433-435

  Schmieder, Robert ^a,b   Lim, Yan Wei ^c   Edwards, Robert ^a,d  

^a San Diego State University   (United States)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER LANGUAGE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; HUMAN; INTERNET; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METAGENOME;

HUMANS; INTERNET; METAGENOME; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SOFTWARE; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84856567776     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 14602059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btr669     Document Type: Article

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