Metagenomic species profiling using universal phylogenetic marker genes
Metagenomic species profiling using universal phylogenetic marker genes
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DOI:
10.1038/nmeth.2693
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发表时间:
2013-12-01
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Bork, Peer
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作者:
Sunagawa, Shinichi;Mende, Daniel R.;Bork, Peer
To quantify known and unknown microorganisms at species-level resolution using shotgun sequencing data, we developed a method that establishes metagenomic operational taxonomic units (mOTUs) based on single-copy phylogenetic marker genes. Applied to 252 human fecal samples, the method revealed that on average 43% of the species abundance and 58% of the richness cannot be captured by current reference genome-based methods. An implementation of the method is available at http://www.bork.embl.de/software/mOTU/.