The road to metagenomics: From microbiology to DNA sequencing technologies and bioinformatics

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue DEC, 2015, Pages

  Escobar Zepeda, Alejandra ^a   De León, Arturo Vera Ponce ^b   Sanchez Flores, Alejandro ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS FÍSICAS   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Bioinformatics; Functional genomics; High throughput sequencing; Metagenomics; Microbiology; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS; DNA SEQUENCE; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; EXTRACT; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; METAGENOME; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIOLOGY; SCIENTIST; SPECIALIZATION;

EID: 84954245238     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2015.00348     Document Type: Review

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