MetaGene: Prediction of Prokaryotic and Phage Genes in Metagenomic Sequences

Handbook of Molecular Microbial Ecology I: Metagenomics and Complementary Approaches

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 433-439

  Noguchi, Hideki ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Metagene, prediction of prokaryotic and phage genes in metagenomic sequences; Mycoplasma genes, MetaGene presupposing all species standard genetic code for encoding amino acids; Prediction performance on short genomic fragments prediction performance, not influenced by lengths of fragments

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EID: 84886221873     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118010518.ch50     Document Type: Chapter

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