The GAAS metagenomic tool and its estimations of viral and microbial average genome size in four major biomes.

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Published in PLoS Comput Biol on December 11, 2009

Authors

Florent E Angly1, Dana Willner, Alejandra Prieto-Davó, Robert A Edwards, Robert Schmieder, Rebecca Vega-Thurber, Dionysios A Antonopoulos, Katie Barott, Matthew T Cottrell, Christelle Desnues, Elizabeth A Dinsdale, Mike Furlan, Matthew Haynes, Matthew R Henn, Yongfei Hu, David L Kirchman, Tracey McDole, John D McPherson, Folker Meyer, R Michael Miller, Egbert Mundt, Robert K Naviaux, Beltran Rodriguez-Mueller, Rick Stevens, Linda Wegley, Lixin Zhang, Baoli Zhu, Forest Rohwer

Author Affiliations

1: Biology Department, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, United States of America. forent.angly@gmail.com

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