Assessing the performance of different approaches for functional and taxonomic annotation of metagenomes

Abstract Background Metagenomes can be analysed using different approaches and tools. One of the most important distinctions is the way to perform taxonomic and functional assignment, choosing between the use of assembly algorithms or the direct analysis of raw sequence reads instead by homology sea...

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Main Authors: Javier Tamames, Marta Cobo-Simón, Fernando Puente-Sánchez
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-12-01
Series:BMC Genomics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-019-6289-6