Taxator-tk: Precise taxonomic assignment of metagenomes by fast approximation of evolutionary neighborhoods

Bioinformatics

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 817-824

  Droge J ^a,b   Gregor, I ^a,b   McHardy, A C ^a,b,c  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATICS   (Germany)

^c HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR INFECTION RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA;

ALGORITHM; BACTERIUM; GENETICS; GENOMICS; METAGENOME; PHYLOGENY; PROCEDURES; SOFTWARE;

ALGORITHMS; BACTERIA; GENOMICS; METAGENOME; PHYLOGENY; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84925243945     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 14602059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btu745     Document Type: Article

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