Alignment and clustering of phylogenetic markers--implications for microbial diversity studies.

doi:10.1186/1471-2105-11-152

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Alignment and clustering of phylogenetic markers--implications for microbial diversity studies.

BMC bioinformatics - 24 Mar 2010

White James R, Navlakha Saket, Nagarajan Niranjan, Ghodsi Mohammad-Reza, Kingsford Carl, Pop Mihai

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BACKGROUND: Molecular studies of microbial diversity have provided many insights into the bacterial communities inhabiting the human body and the environment. A common first step in such studies is a survey of conserved marker genes (primarily 16S rRNA) to characterize the taxonomic composition a...

Topics

Cluster Analysis
DNA, Bacterial
Genetic Markers
Genetic Variation
Phylogeny
RNA, Bacterial
RNA, Ribosomal, 16S
Sequence Alignment

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