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The Human Oral Microbiome Database: a web accessible resource for investigating oral microbe taxonomic and genomic information.
Database : the journal of biological databases and curation - 6 Jul 2010
Chen Tsute, Yu Wen-Han, Izard Jacques, Baranova Oxana V, Lakshmanan Abirami, Dewhirst Floyd E
Abstract excerpt
The human oral microbiome is the most studied human microflora, but 53% of the species have not yet been validly named and 35% remain uncultivated. The uncultivated taxa are known primarily from 16S rRNA sequence information. Sequence information tied solely to obscure isolate or clone numbers, and usually lacking accurate phylogenetic placement, is a major impediment to working with human oral microbiome data....
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