CopyRighter: A rapid tool for improving the accuracy of microbial community profiles through lineage-specific gene copy number correction

Microbiome

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Angly, Florent E ^a   Dennis, Paul G ^a   Skarshewski, Adam ^a   Vanwonterghem, Inka ^a   Hugenholtz, Philip ^a   Tyson, Gene W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

AMPLICON; ARCHAEON; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; COPYRIGHTER; HUMAN; INTESTINE FLORA; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROBIAL GENOME; NONHUMAN; PHOTOBACTERIUM PHOSPHOREUM; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYROSEQUENCING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TAXONOMY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84905661514     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20492618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2049-2618-2-11     Document Type: Article

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