Toward Accurate and Quantitative Comparative Metagenomics

Cell

Volumn 166, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 1103-1116

  Nayfach, Stephen ^a,b   Pollard, Katherine S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b GLADSTONE INSTITUTES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; BIOINFORMATICS; HUMAN; METAGENOME; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIOME; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; STATISTICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; MICROFLORA; STANDARDS;

CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; HUMANS; METAGENOME; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIOTA; MODELS, STATISTICAL;

EID: 84983746072     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: 10974172     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2016.08.007     Document Type: Review

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