METAGENassist: A comprehensive web server for comparative metagenomics

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 40, Issue W1, 2012, Pages

  Arndt, David ^a   Xia, Jianguo ^a   Liu, Yifeng ^a   Zhou, You ^a   Guo, An Chi ^a   Cruz, Joseph A ^a   Sinelnikov, Igor ^a   Budwill, Karen ^b   Nesbø, Camilla L ^a,c   Wishart, David S ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b Environment and Carbon Management Division   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^d NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE METAGENOMICS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA PROCESSING; ENERGY RESOURCE; ENVIRONMENT; GENETIC DATABASE; GENOME SIZE; HOST; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERNET; METAGENOMICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TAXONOMY; TEMPERATURE; WEB SERVER;

BACTERIA; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; INTERNET; METAGENOMICS; PHENOTYPE; SOFTWARE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84864462144     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks497     Document Type: Article

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