Bioinformatic approaches for functional annotation and pathway inference in metagenomics data

Briefings in Bioinformatics

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 696-710

  De Filippo, Carlotta ^a   Ramazzotti, Matteo ^b   Fontana, Paolo ^a   Cavalieri, Duccio ^b  

^a CRI FEM   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Gene annotation; Metagenomics; Microbiome; Next generation sequencing; Pathway analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; METAGENOME; METAGENOMICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHENOTYPE;

METAGENOME; METAGENOMICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 84870041387     PISSN: 14675463     EISSN: 14774054     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbs070     Document Type: Article

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