The Biological Observation Matrix (BIOM) format or: How I learned to stop worrying and love the ome-ome

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Volumn 464, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  McDonald, Daniel ^a   Clemente, Jose C ^a   Kuczynski, Justin ^b   Rideout, Jai R ^c   Stombaugh, Jesse ^a   Wendel, Doug ^a   Wilke, Andreas ^d   Huse, Susan ^e   Hufnagle, John ^e   Meyer, Folker ^d   Knight, Rob ^a,f   Caporaso, J G ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b Second Genome   (United States)

^c Center for Materials Interfaces in Research and Applications   (United States)

^d ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

BIOM; Comparative genomics; Metagenomics; MG RAST; Microbial ecology; QIIME; VAMPS

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868270724     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2047217X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2047-217X-1-7     Document Type: Note

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