A clinician's guide to microbiome analysis

Nature Reviews Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2017, Pages 585-595

  Claesson, Marcus J ^a,b   Clooney, Adam G ^a,b,c   O'Toole, Paul W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^c Department of Chemistry   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS; DNA EXTRACTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY; METAGENOME; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIOME; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA EXTRACTION; SPECIES COMPOSITION; BIOLOGY; GENETIC PROCEDURES; INTESTINE FLORA; METHODOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GASTROINTESTINAL MICROBIOME; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; METAGENOMICS; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 85029872339     PISSN: 17595045     EISSN: 17595053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrgastro.2017.97     Document Type: Review

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