De-MetaST-BLAST: A Tool for the Validation of Degenerate Primer Sets and Data Mining of Publicly Available Metagenomes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Gulvik, Christopher A ^a   Effler, T Chad ^a,b   Wilhelm, Steven W ^a   Buchan, Alison ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b University of Tennessee   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA MINING; DEGENERATE PRIMER SET; METAGENOME; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE DATABASE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATA MINING; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; DNA PRIMERS; INTERNET; METAGENOME; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84869988564     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0050362     Document Type: Article

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