Environmental microbiology through the lens of high-throughput DNA sequencing: Synopsis of current platforms and bioinformatics approaches

Journal of Microbiological Methods

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 106-113

  Logares, Ramiro ^a   Haverkamp, Thomas H A ^b   Kumar, Surendra ^b   Lanzén, Anders ^c,d   Nederbragt, Alexander J ^b   Quince, Christopher ^e   Kauserud, Håvard ^b  

^a INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^d Uni Research   (Norway)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

High throughput sequencing; Illumina, 454, metagenomics; Metabolic profiling; Microbial community; Taxonomic profiling

Indexed keywords

AMPLICON; BIOINFORMATICS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; FILTRATION; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOME ANALYSIS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TAXONOMY;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; METAGENOMICS;

EID: 84865285541     PISSN: 01677012     EISSN: 18728359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mimet.2012.07.017     Document Type: Review

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