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PHACCS, an online tool for estimating the structure and diversity of uncultured viral communities using metagenomic information.
BMC bioinformatics - 2 Mar 2005
Angly Florent, Rodriguez-Brito Beltran, Bangor David, McNairnie Pat, Breitbart Mya, Salamon Peter, Felts Ben, Nulton James, Mahaffy Joseph, Rohwer Forest
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BACKGROUND: Phages, viruses that infect prokaryotes, are the most abundant microbes in the world. A major limitation to studying these viruses is the difficulty of cultivating the appropriate prokaryotic hosts. One way around this limitation is to directly clone and sequence shotgun libraries of uncultured viral communities (i.e., metagenomic analyses). PHACCS http://phage.sdsu.edu/phaccs, Phage Communities from...
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