An introduction to the analysis of shotgun metagenomic data

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 5, Issue JUN, 2014, Pages

  Sharpton, Thomas J ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioinformatics; Host microbe interactions; Metagenome; Microbial diversity; Microbiome; Microbiota; Review

Indexed keywords

EID: 84979608055     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2014.00209     Document Type: Review

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