From genomes to phenotypes: Traitar, the microbial trait analyzer

mSystems

Volumn 1, Issue 6, 2016, Pages

  Weimann, Aaron ^a,b   Mooren, Kyra ^a,b   Frank, Jeremy ^c   Pope, Phillip B ^c   Bremges, Andreas ^a   McHardy, Alice C ^a,b  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR INFECTION RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

Ancestral trait reconstruction; Genotype phenotype inference; Metagenomics; Microbial traits; Phenotypes; Phyletic patterns; Single cell genomics; Support vector machines

Indexed keywords

EID: 85018584528     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23795077     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mSystems.00101-16     Document Type: Article

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