Experimental design and quantitative analysis of microbial community multiomics

Genome Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Mallick, Himel ^a,b   Ma, Siyuan ^a,b   Franzosa, Eric A ^a,b   Vatanen, Tommi ^b   Morgan, Xochitl C ^c   Huttenhower, Curtis ^a,b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; HUMAN; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIOME; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; DNA BARCODING; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; METABOLOMICS; METAGENOMICS; METHODOLOGY; MICROFLORA; PROCEDURES; PROTEOMICS;

ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA BARCODING, TAXONOMIC; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMANS; METABOLOMICS; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIOTA; PROTEOMICS; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 85035330563     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13059-017-1359-z     Document Type: Review

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