PROPOSAL FOR OPEN DISCUSSION - Informatics Challenges for Next Generation Sequencing Metagenomics Experiments

Folker Meyer, Nikos Kyrpides

2011

Abstract

With DNA sequence data production no longer the bottleneck in microbial studies, a rapidly increasing number of researchers from diverse areas of interest can now use metagenomic tools to study their environment of interest. The large quantities of sequence data becoming available are posing significant challenges to the existing analysis tools and indeed to the community providing analysis portals.

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Meyer F. and Kyrpides N. (2011). PROPOSAL FOR OPEN DISCUSSION - Informatics Challenges for Next Generation Sequencing Metagenomics Experiments . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Bioinformatics Models, Methods and Algorithms - Volume 1: Meta, (BIOSTEC 2011) ISBN 978-989-8425-36-2, pages 363-366. DOI: 10.5220/0003334203630366


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@conference{meta11,
author={Folker Meyer and Nikos Kyrpides},
title={PROPOSAL FOR OPEN DISCUSSION - Informatics Challenges for Next Generation Sequencing Metagenomics Experiments},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Bioinformatics Models, Methods and Algorithms - Volume 1: Meta, (BIOSTEC 2011)},
year={2011},
pages={363-366},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003334203630366},
isbn={978-989-8425-36-2},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Bioinformatics Models, Methods and Algorithms - Volume 1: Meta, (BIOSTEC 2011)
TI - PROPOSAL FOR OPEN DISCUSSION - Informatics Challenges for Next Generation Sequencing Metagenomics Experiments
SN - 978-989-8425-36-2
AU - Meyer F.
AU - Kyrpides N.
PY - 2011
SP - 363
EP - 366
DO - 10.5220/0003334203630366