Identifying contamination with advanced visualization and analysis practices: Metagenomic approaches for eukaryotic genome assemblies

PeerJ

Volumn 2016, Issue 3, 2016, Pages

  Delmont, Tom O ^a   Eren, A Murat ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Assembly; Contamination; Curation; Genomics; HGT; Visualization

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL GENOME; CONTAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUKARYOTE; GENOME; LIBRARY; METAGENOME; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIAL GENOME; MICROBIOLOGY; TARDIGRADA;

EID: 84963949105     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21678359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.1839     Document Type: Article

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