High-throughput metagenomic technologies for complex microbial community analysis: Open and closed formats

mBio

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Zhou, Jizhong ^a,b,c   He, Zhili ^a   Yang, Yunfeng ^b   Deng, Ye ^a,d   Tringe, Susannah G ^e   Alvarez Cohen, Lisa ^c,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d RESEARCH CENTER FOR ECO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

^e DOE JOINT GENOME INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f Berkeley   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLOSED FORMAT MICROBIAL DETECTION TECHNOLOGY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TECHNOLOGY; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; METAGENOMICS; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROORGANISM DETECTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; OPEN FORMAT MICROBIAL DETECTION TECHNOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOIL MICROFLORA; SPECIES COMPOSITION; BACTERIUM; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; EVALUATION STUDY; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

BACTERIA; ECOSYSTEM; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; METAGENOMICS; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 84924173491     PISSN: 21612129     EISSN: 21507511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.02288-14     Document Type: Article

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