Meta-storms: Efficient search for similar microbial communities based on a novel indexing scheme and similarity score for metagenomic data

Bioinformatics

Volumn 28, Issue 19, 2012, Pages 2493-2501

  Su, Xiaoquan ^a   Xu, Jian ^a   Ning, Kang ^a  

^a QINGDAO INSTITUTE OF BIOENERGY AND BIOPROCESS TECHNOLOGY   (China)

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Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; GENETIC DATABASE; HUMAN; METAGENOME; METAGENOMICS; METHODOLOGY; PHYLOGENY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, GENETIC; HUMANS; METAGENOME; METAGENOMICS; PHYLOGENY; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84867322621     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 14602059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bts470     Document Type: Article

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