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A statistical toolbox for metagenomics: assessing functional diversity in microbial communities.

BMC bioinformatics - 23 Jan 2008

Schloss Patrick D, Handelsman Jo

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BACKGROUND: The 99% of bacteria in the environment that are recalcitrant to culturing have spurred the development of metagenomics, a culture-independent approach to sample and characterize microbial genomes. Massive datasets of metagenomic sequences have been accumulated, but analysis of these sequences has focused primarily on the descriptive comparison of the relative abundance of proteins that belong to...

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Animals
Bacteria
Bone and Bones
Computational Biology
Data Interpretation, Statistical
Genetic Variation
Genomics
Models, Genetic
Peptide Fragments
RNA, Ribosomal, 16S
Soil Microbiology

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PMID: 18215273
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-9-34
PMCID: PMC2238731

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