Characterization of the gut microbiome using 16S or shotgun metagenomics

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 7, Issue APR, 2016, Pages

  Jovel, Juan ^a   Patterson, Jordan ^a   Wang, Weiwei ^a   Hotte, Naomi ^a   O'Keefe, Sandra ^a   Mitchel, Troy ^a   Perry, Troy ^a   Kao, Dina ^a   Mason, Andrew L ^a   Madsen, Karen L ^a   Wong, Gane K S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b BGI SHENZHEN   (China)

Author keywords

16S rRNA gene sequencing; Bioinformatics; Diversity analysis; Functional profiling; Gut microbiome; Shotgun metagenomics; Taxonomic classification

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; COLON FLORA; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CROHN DISEASE; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; LAST COMMON ANCESTOR; METABOLIC CAPACITY; METABOLISM; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRINCIPAL COORDINATE ANALYSIS; TAXONOMY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 84966430254     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.00459     Document Type: Article

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