Direct sequencing of the human microbiome readily reveals community differences
Open Access
- 5 May 2010
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Nature in Genome Biology
- Vol. 11 (5), 1-9
- https://doi.org/10.1186/gb-2010-11-5-210
Abstract
Culture-independent studies of human microbiota by direct genomic sequencing reveal quite distinct differences among communities, indicating that improved sequencing capacity can be most wisely utilized to study more samples, rather than more sequences per sample.Keywords
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