A unified catalog of 204,938 reference genomes from the human gut microbiome

Alexandre Almeida; Stephen Nayfach; Miguel Boland; Francesco Strozzi; Martín Beracochea; Zhou Jason Shi; Katherine S. Pollard; Ekaterina Sakharova; Donovan H. Parks; Philip Hugenholtz; Nicola Segata; Nikos C. Kyrpides; ROBERT FINN

doi:10.1038/s41587-020-0603-3

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BiologyGenomeENCODEComputational biologyGeneMicrobiomeHuman genomeGeneticsHuman Microbiome ProjectGut microbiomeBacterial genome sizeReference genomeEvolutionary biology

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Year: 2020
Type: article
Volume: 39
Issue: 1
Pages: 105-114
Citations: 1296
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                                    Alexandre Almeida, 
                                
                                    Stephen Nayfach, 
                                
                                    Miguel Boland
                                
                                et al.
                            
                            (2020). 
                            A unified catalog of 204,938 reference genomes from the human gut microbiome. 
                            Nature Biotechnology
                            , 39
                            (1)
                            , 105-114.
                            https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-020-0603-3
                        

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DOI: 10.1038/s41587-020-0603-3