Considerations for the development and application of control materials to improve metagenomic microbial community profiling

Accreditation and Quality Assurance

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 77-83

  Huggett, Jim F ^a   Laver, Thomas ^b   Tamisak, Sasithon ^a   Nixon, Gavin ^a   O'Sullivan, Denise M ^a   Elaswarapu, Ramnath ^a   Studholme, David J ^b   Foy, Carole A ^a  

^a LGC   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Metagenomics; Microbes; Microbial profiling; Microbiome; Molecular; Next generation sequencing; NGS; Standards

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875389052     PISSN: 09491775     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00769-012-0941-z     Document Type: Review

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