Fast and accurate taxonomic assignments of metagenomic sequences using MetaBin.

Taxonomic assignment of sequence reads is a challenging task in metagenomic data analysis, for which the present methods mainly use either composition- or homology-based approaches. Though the homology-based methods are more sensitive and accurate, they suffer primarily due to the time needed to gen...

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Main Authors: Vineet K Sharma, Naveen Kumar, Tulika Prakash, Todd D Taylor
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3319535?pdf=render