Taxonomic assignment of uncultivated prokaryotic virus genomes is enabled by gene-sharing networks

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2019, Pages 632-639

  Bin Jang, Ho ^a   Bolduc, Benjamin ^a   Zablocki, Olivier ^a   Kuhn, Jens H ^b   Roux, Simon ^c   Adriaenssens, Evelien M ^d,e   Brister, J Rodney ^f   Kropinski, Andrew M ^g,h   Krupovic, Mart ⁱ   Lavigne, Rob ^j   Turner, Dann ^k   Sullivan, Matthew B ^a,l  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^c DOE JOINT GENOME INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^e NORWICH RESEARCH PARK   (United Kingdom)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^h UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

ⁱ INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^j LABORATORY OF GENE TECHNOLOGY   (Belgium)

^k UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^l The Ohio State University   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENES; LARGE DATASET; TAXONOMIES;

CONFIDENCE SCORE; DISTANCE-BASED; GLOBAL OCEAN; HIER-ARCHICAL CLUSTERING; HIGH CONFIDENCE; NATIONAL CENTER FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY INFORMATIONS; NETWORK BASED APPLICATIONS; SHARING NETWORK;

VIRUSES;

ARTICLE; BIOTECHNOLOGY; GENOMIC FRAGMENT; GENUS; METAGENOME; METAGENOMICS; SEA; VIRUS CLASSIFICATION; VIRUS GENOME; BACTERIOPHAGE; CLASSIFICATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PROKARYOTIC CELL; VIROLOGY; VIRUS;

BACTERIOPHAGES; CLASSIFICATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENOME, VIRAL; METAGENOME; METAGENOMICS; PHYLOGENY; PROKARYOTIC CELLS; VIRUSES;

EID: 85065314281     PISSN: 10870156     EISSN: 15461696     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41587-019-0100-8     Document Type: Article

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