Reference databases for taxonomic assignment in metagenomics

Briefings in Bioinformatics

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 682-695

  Santamaria, Monica ^a   Fosso, Bruno ^b   Consiglio, Arianna ^c   De caro, Giorgio ^c   Grillo, Giorgio ^c   Licciulli, Flavio ^c   Liuni, Sabino ^c   Marzano, Marinella ^a   Alonso alemany, Daniel ^d   Valiente, Gabriel ^d   Pesole, Graziano ^a  

^a Institute of Biomembrane and Bioenergetics of National Research Council (IBBE CNR)   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^c Institute of Biomedical Technologies of National Research Council (ITB CNR)   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

16S rRNA; ITS; Metagenomics; Microbial communities; Reference database

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; FUNGUS; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METAGENOMICS; METHODOLOGY; RNA GENE;

ALGORITHMS; DATABASES, GENETIC; FUNGI; GENES, RRNA; METAGENOMICS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84869045574     PISSN: 14675463     EISSN: 14774054     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbs036     Document Type: Article

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