WebCARMA: a web application for the functional and taxonomic classification of unassembled metagenomic reads.

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Published in BMC Bioinformatics on December 18, 2009

Authors

Wolfgang Gerlach1, Sebastian Jünemann, Felix Tille, Alexander Goesmann, Jens Stoye

Author Affiliations

1: Faculty of Technology, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany. wolfgang.gerlach@cebitec.uni-bielefeld.de

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