FunGene: The functional gene pipeline and repository

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 4, Issue OCT, 2013, Pages

  Fish, Jordan A ^a,b   Chai, Benli ^a   Wang, Qiong ^a   Sun, Yanni ^b   Brown, C Titus ^b,c   Tiedje, James M ^a,c   Cole, James R ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Michigan State University   (United States)

^c Michigan State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Amplicon analysis; Amplification primers; Biogeochemical cycles; Functional genes; Microbial ecology; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT TOOL; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BIODEGRADATION; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; CHIMERA CHECK TOOL; CLINICAL DATA REPOSITORY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA PROCESSING; DEFINED COMMUNITY ANALYSIS TOOL; DEREPLICATOR TOOL; DNA SEQUENCE; FRAMEBOT TOOL; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MUCLUST TOOL; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; REPRESENTATIVE SEQUENCE TOOL; RNA GENE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TOOL USE;

EID: 84885391639     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2013.00291     Document Type: Article

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