Bioinformatics for whole-genome shotgun sequencing of microbial communities.

The application of whole-genome shotgun sequencing to microbial communities represents a major development in metagenomics, the study of uncultured microbes via the tools of modern genomic analysis. In the past year, whole-genome shotgun sequencing projects of prokaryotic communities from an acid mi...

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Main Authors: Kevin Chen, Lior Pachter
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2005-07-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.0010024