Current opportunities and challenges in microbial metagenome analysis-A bioinformatic perspective

Briefings in Bioinformatics

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 728-742

  Teeling, Hanno ^a   Glöckner, Frank Oliver ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

16S rRNA biodiversity; Binning; Bioinformatics; Genomic standards consortium; Metagenomics; Next generation sequencing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869998312     PISSN: 14675463     EISSN: 14774054     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbs039     Document Type: Article

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