Metagenomics: Tools and insights for analyzing next-generation sequencing data derived from biodiversity studies

Bioinformatics and Biology Insights

Volumn 9, Issue , 2015, Pages 75-88

  Oulas, Anastasis ^a   Pavloudi, Christina ^a,b,c   Polymenakou, Paraskevi ^a   Pavlopoulos, Georgios A ^d   Papanikolaou, Nikolas ^d   Kotoulas, Georgios ^a   Arvanitidis, Christos ^a   Iliopoulos, Ioannis ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Computational tools; Data analysis; Metagenomics; Next generation sequencing

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOINFORMATICS; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; ECOLOGY; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING;

EID: 84981483022     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11779322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4137/BBI.S12462     Document Type: Article

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