Remote homology and the functions of metagenomic dark matter

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue JUL, 2015, Pages

  Lobb, Briallen ^a   Kurtz, Daniel A ^a   Moreno Hagelsieb, Gabriel ^b   Doxey, Andrew C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Comparative metagenomics; Functional annotation; Metagenome; Metaproteome; ORFan; Orphan; Profile profile comparison; Remote homology

Indexed keywords

METALLOPROTEINASE; VIRUS PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENT; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INTESTINE FLORA; METAGENOMICS; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME;

EID: 84940107406     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2015.00234     Document Type: Article

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