From metagenomics of hot springs to bioinformatics software development
The motivation behind developing a new tool for taxonomic classification of metagenomic high-throughput sequencing data.
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In the future, we would like to expand the list of taxa in Kaiju's reference database to fungi and microbial eukaryotes too. Since those are spread out a bit across the phylogeny, I started a list...
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