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Exploring the functional composition of the human microbiome using a hand-curated microbial trait database.
BMC bioinformatics - 7 Jun 2021
Weissman J L, Dogra Sonia, Javadi Keyan, Bolten Samantha, Flint Rachel, Davati Cyrus, Beattie Jess, Dixit Keshav, Peesay Tejasvi, Awan Shehar, Thielen Peter, Breitwieser Florian, Johnson Philip L F, Karig David, Fagan William F, Bewick Sharon
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BACKGROUND: Even when microbial communities vary wildly in their taxonomic composition, their functional composition is often surprisingly stable. This suggests that a functional perspective could provide much deeper insight into the principles governing microbiome assembly. Much work to date analyzing the functional composition of microbial communities, however, relies heavily on inference from genomic features....
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