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Assessment of k-mer spectrum applicability for metagenomic dissimilarity analysis.
BMC bioinformatics - 16 Jan 2016
Dubinkina Veronika B, Ischenko Dmitry S, Ulyantsev Vladimir I, Tyakht Alexander V, Alexeev Dmitry G
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BACKGROUND: A rapidly increasing flow of genomic data requires the development of efficient methods for obtaining its compact representation. Feature extraction facilitates classification, clustering and model analysis for testing and refining biological hypotheses. "Shotgun" metagenome is an analytically challenging type of genomic data - containing sequences of all genes from the totality of a complex microbial...
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