Use of metatranscriptomics in microbiome research

Bioinformatics and Biology Insights

Volumn 10, Issue , 2016, Pages 19-25

  Bashiardes, Stavros ^a   Zilberman Schapira, Gili ^a   Elinav, Eran ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Gut; Microbiome; Next generation sequencing; RNA seq; Transcriptome

Indexed keywords

EID: 84964803999     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11779322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4137/BBI.S34610     Document Type: Article

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