News in livestock research — use of Omics-technologies to study the microbiota in the gastrointestinal tract of farm animals

Technical progress in the field of next-generation sequencing, mass spectrometry and bioinformatics facilitates the study of highly complex biological samples such as taxonomic and functional characterization of microbial communities that virtually colonize all present ecological niches. Compared to...

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Main Authors: Simon Deusch, Bruno Tilocca, Amélia Camarinha-Silva, Jana Seifert
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2015-01-01
Series:Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2001037014000555