Automated and Accurate Estimation of Gene Family Abundance from Shotgun Metagenomes

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 2015, Pages

  Nayfach, Stephen ^a   Bradley, Patrick H ^a   Wyman, Stacia K ^a   Laurent, Timothy J ^a   Williams, Alex ^a   Eisen, Jonathan A ^b   Pollard, Katherine S ^a,c   Sharpton, Thomas J ^a,d  

^a GLADSTONE INSTITUTE OF CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMARKERS; DISEASES; DNA SEQUENCES; GENE ENCODING;

ACCURATE ESTIMATION; AUTOMATED ESTIMATION; BIOINFORMATIC TOOLS; DNA SEQUENCING; GENE FAMILIES; GUT MICROBIOTA; METAGENOMES; METAGENOMIC DNA; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; MICROBIOME;

PIPELINES;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CROHN DISEASE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE; INTESTINE FLORA; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; METAGENOME; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIOME; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OPEN READING FRAME; PROTEIN FAMILY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHOTGUN METAGENOME ANNOTATION PIPELINE; SIMULATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHROMOSOMAL MAPPING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROFLORA; PROCEDURES;

GENETIC MARKER;

CHROMOSOME MAPPING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROHN DISEASE; GENETIC MARKERS; HUMANS; METAGENOME; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIOTA; MODELS, GENETIC;

EID: 84949219026     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004573     Document Type: Article

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