Incorporating 16S Gene Copy Number Information Improves Estimates of Microbial Diversity and Abundance

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Kembel, Steven W ^a,f   Wu, Martin ^b   Eisen, Jonathan A ^c,d   Green, Jessica L ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS; DNA SEQUENCES; ECOLOGY; GENOME; MICROORGANISMS; RNA;

COPY NUMBER; ENVIRONMENTAL SAMPLE; GENE COPY NUMBER; GENE SEQUENCES; GENOMICS; MICROBIAL ABUNDANCES; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NUMBER INFORMATION; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE;

GENES;

EID: 84868094960     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002743     Document Type: Article

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