A comprehensive metatranscriptome analysis pipeline and its validation using human small intestine microbiota datasets.

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Published in BMC Genomics on August 02, 2013

Authors

Milkha M Leimena1, Javier Ramiro-Garcia, Mark Davids, Bartholomeus van den Bogert, Hauke Smidt, Eddy J Smid, Jos Boekhorst, Erwin G Zoetendal, Peter J Schaap, Michiel Kleerebezem

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1: TI Food and Nutrition (TIFN), P,O, Box 557, 6700 AN, Wageningen, The Netherlands.

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