CONSTAX: A tool for improved taxonomic resolution of environmental fungal ITS sequences

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Gdanetz, Kristi ^a   Benucci, Gian Maria Niccolò ^a   Vande Pol, Natalie ^b   Bonito, Gregory ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b and Microbial Sciences ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Fungal microbiome; ITS; Mycobiome; RDP; SINTAX; Taxonomy classifiers; UNOISE; UPARSE

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; FUNGI; TAXONOMIES;

MICROBIOME; MYCOBIOME; SINTAX; UNOISE; UPARSE;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

FUNGAL DNA; SPACER DNA;

CLASSIFICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; FUNGAL GENOME; FUNGUS; GENETICS; GENOMICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; PROCEDURES; SOFTWARE;

DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, INTERGENIC; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; FUNGI; GENOME, FUNGAL; GENOMICS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; SOFTWARE;

EID: 85038405945     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12859-017-1952-x     Document Type: Article

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