Assessing viral taxonomic composition in benthic marine ecosystems: Reliability and efficiency of different bioinformatic tools for viral metagenomic analyses

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Tangherlini, M ^a   Dell'Anno, A ^a   Zeigler Allen, L ^b   Riccioni, G ^a   Corinaldesi, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

^b J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP SEA; FAMILY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSTRUMENT VALIDATION; METAGENOME; METAGENOMICS; RELIABILITY; VIRUS STRAIN; BIOLOGY; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; NUCLEIC ACID DATABASE; PHYLOGENY; PROCEDURES; SEA; VIRUS;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; ECOSYSTEM; METAGENOMICS; OCEANS AND SEAS; PHYLOGENY; VIRUSES; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 84976324434     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep28428     Document Type: Article

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