StrainSelect: A novel microbiome reference database that disambiguates all bacterial strains, genome assemblies and extant cultures worldwide
Motivation: Microbial metagenomic profiling software and databases are advancing rapidly for development of novel disease biomarkers and therapeutics yet three problems impede analyses: 1) the conflation of “genome assembly” and “strain” in reference databases; 2) difficulty connecting DNA biomarker...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2023-02-01
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Series: | Heliyon |
Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844023005212 |