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A critical assessment of gene catalogs for metagenomic analysis
Author(s) -
Seth Commichaux,
Nidhi Shah,
Jay Ghurye,
Alexander Stoppel,
Jessica A. Goodheart,
Guillermo G. Luque,
Michael P. Cummings,
Mihai Pop
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
bioinformatics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.599
H-Index - 390
eISSN - 1367-4811
pISSN - 1367-4803
DOI - 10.1093/bioinformatics/btab216
Subject(s) - metagenomics , construct (python library) , scripting language , computer science , data science , computational biology , microbiome , information retrieval , data mining , gene , biology , bioinformatics , programming language , genetics
Microbial gene catalogs are data structures that organize genes found in microbial communities, providing a reference for standardized analysis of the microbes across samples and studies. Although gene catalogs are commonly used, they have not been critically evaluated for their effectiveness as a basis for metagenomic analyses.

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