Megraft: A software package to graft ribosomal small subunit (16S/18S) fragments onto full-length sequences for accurate species richness and sequencing depth analysis in pyrosequencing-length metagenomes and similar environmental datasets

Research in Microbiology

Volumn 163, Issue 6-7, 2012, Pages 407-412

  Bengtsson, Johan ^a,b   Hartmann, Martin ^c,d   Unterseher, Martin ^e   Vaishampayan, Parag ^f   Abarenkov, Kessy ^g   Durso, Lisa ^h   Bik, Elisabeth M ⁱ   Garey, James R ^j   Eriksson, K Martin ^b   Nilsson, R Henrik ^b,k  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^c AGROSCOPE RECKENHOLZ TÄNIKON RESEARCH STATION ART   (Switzerland)

^d SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^f CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^h USDA Agricultural Research Service Lincoln Nebraska   (United States)

ⁱ STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

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Author keywords

16S; 18S; Metagenomics; Rarefaction; RDNA; Species richness analysis

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S; RNA 18S; SMALL SUBUNIT RIBOSOMAL RNA;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MEGRAFT; METAGENOME; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES RICHNESS;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; METAGENOME; METAGENOMICS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84865596022     PISSN: 09232508     EISSN: 17697123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resmic.2012.07.001     Document Type: Article

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