Comparing and evaluating metagenome assembly tools from a microbiologist's perspective - Not only size matters!

PLoS ONE

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Vollmers, John ^a   Wiegand, Sandra ^a   Kaster, Anne Kristin ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE DSMZ GERMAN COLLECTION OF MICROORGANISMS AND CELL CULTURES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOFILM; FOREST SOIL; METAGENOME; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIOLOGY; ORGANISM COMMUNITY; RELIABILITY; SOFTWARE; STATISTICS; BIODIVERSITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FOREST; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; MACROCYSTIS; PHYLOGENY; PROCEDURES;

BIODIVERSITY; FORESTS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; MACROCYSTIS; METAGENOME; METAGENOMICS; PHYLOGENY; SOFTWARE; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 85009967892     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0169662     Document Type: Review

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