Challenges and opportunities in understanding microbial communities with metagenome assembly (accompanied by IPython Notebook tutorial)

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue JUL, 2015, Pages

  Howe, Adina ^a   Chain, Patrick S G ^b  

^a Iowa State University of Science and Technology   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Assembly; Challenges; Metagenomes; Review; Tutorial

Indexed keywords

CONTIG;

ALGORITHM; BIOINFORMATICS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; METAGENOME; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; SHORT SURVEY;

EID: 84938896114     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.00678     Document Type: Short Survey

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