The Metagenomics RAST Server: A Public Resource for the Automatic Phylogenetic and Functional Analysis of Metagenomes

Handbook of Molecular Microbial Ecology I: Metagenomics and Complementary Approaches

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 325-331

  Glass, Elizabeth M ^a   Meyer, Folker ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Comparative heat maps, and PEGs functions belonging to subsytem(s), mapped to subsystem; Metagenomics RAST server, public resource automatic phylogenetic and functional analysis of metagenomes; Models in MG RAST, metabolic reconstructions mapped to reactions in SEED biochemistry database

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EID: 84886026493     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118010518.ch37     Document Type: Chapter

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