Integrative workflows for metagenomic analysis

Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology

Volumn 2, Issue NOV, 2014, Pages

  Ladoukakis, Efthymios ^a   Kolisis, Fragiskos N ^a   Chatziioannou, Aristotelis A ^b  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Bioinformatics; Cloud computing; Distributed computing; Metagenomics; Workflow engines

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937000562     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2296634X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fcell.2014.00070     Document Type: Review

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