Assembling metagenomes, one community at a time

BMC Genomics

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  van der Walt, Andries Johannes ^a   van Goethem, Marc Warwick ^a   Ramond, Jean Baptiste ^a   Makhalanyane, Thulani Peter ^a   Reva, Oleg ^a   Cowan, Don Arthur ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Assembler; Bioinformatics; Ilumina HiSeq; Metagenome assembly; Microbial ecology

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS; ECOLOGY; HUMAN; METAGENOME; SCIENTIST; SIMULATION; WORKFLOW; BENCHMARKING; ENVIRONMENT; GENETIC DATABASE; METAGENOMICS; PROCEDURES;

BENCHMARKING; DATABASES, GENETIC; ENVIRONMENT; METAGENOMICS;

EID: 85021978550     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12864-017-3918-9     Document Type: Article

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