Secondary structure information does not improve OTU assignment for partial 16s rRNA sequences

ISME Journal

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1277-1280

  Wang, Xiaoyu ^a   Cai, Yunpeng ^b   Sun, Yijun ^a,c   Knight, Rob ^d,e   Mai, Volker ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b SHENZHEN INSTITUTES OF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c University of Florida   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^e HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

BACTERIUM; CLASSIFICATION; CONFORMATION; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; METAGENOME; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

BACTERIA; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; METAGENOME; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA;

EID: 84862613173     PISSN: 17517362     EISSN: 17517370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2011.187     Document Type: Note

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