PhyloPhlAn is a new method for improved phylogenetic and taxonomic placement of microbes

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Segata, Nicola ^a,c   Börnigen, Daniela ^a,b   Morgan, Xochitl C ^a,b   Huttenhower, Curtis ^a,b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEAL PROTEIN; RIBOSOME PROTEIN; RNA 16S;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; GENOME; MICROBIOLOGY; OPTIMIZATION; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN; QUALITY CONTROL; TAXONOMY;

ACCURACY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARCHAEAL GENOME; ARCHAEON; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM; CALDISERICA PHYLUM; CLADISTICS; CLASSIFICATION; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROORGANISM; NONHUMAN; OP1 PHYLUM; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOPHLAN; PHYLUM; QUALITY CONTROL; RECALL; SYNTENY; TAXONOMY; TREE OF LIFE;

BACTERIA; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASES, GENETIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME; INTERNET; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SULFOLOBUS;

EID: 84883116930     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3304     Document Type: Article

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