jMOTU and Taxonerator: Turning DNA Barcode Sequences into Annotated Operational Taxonomic Units
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jMOTU and Taxonerator: Turning DNA Barcode Sequences into Annotated Operational Taxonomic Units
BACKGROUND DNA barcoding and other DNA sequence-based techniques for investigating and estimating biodiversity require explicit methods for associating individual sequences with taxa, as it is at the taxon level that biodiversity is assessed. For many projects, the bioinformatic analyses required pose problems for laboratories whose prime expertise is not in bioinformatics. User-friendly tools ...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLoS ONE
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0019259