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| Title |
Estimation of viral richness from shotgun metagenomes using a frequency count approach
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| Published in |
Microbiome, February 2013
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| DOI | 10.1186/2049-2618-1-5 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Heather K Allen, John Bunge, James A Foster, Darrell O Bayles, Thaddeus B Stanton |
| Abstract |
Viruses are important drivers of ecosystem functions, yet little is known about the vast majority of viruses. Viral shotgun metagenomics enables the investigation of broad ecological questions in phage communities. One ecological characteristic is species richness, which is the number of different species in a community. Viruses do not have a phylogenetic marker analogous to the bacterial 16S rRNA gene with which to estimate richness, and so contig spectra are employed to measure the number of virus taxa in a given community. A contig spectrum is generated from a viral shotgun metagenome by assembling the random sequence reads into groups of sequences that overlap (contigs) and counting the number of sequences that group within each contig. Current tools available to analyze contig spectra to estimate phage richness are limited by relying on rank-abundance data. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 9 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 3 | 33% |
| India | 1 | 11% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 11% |
| France | 1 | 11% |
| Unknown | 3 | 33% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 6 | 67% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 2 | 22% |
| Scientists | 1 | 11% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 103 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Brazil | 4 | 4% |
| United States | 3 | 3% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 2% |
| South Africa | 1 | <1% |
| Spain | 1 | <1% |
| Turkey | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 91 | 88% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 32 | 31% |
| Researcher | 23 | 22% |
| Student > Master | 9 | 9% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 8 | 8% |
| Student > Bachelor | 5 | 5% |
| Other | 12 | 12% |
| Unknown | 14 | 14% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 57 | 55% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 9 | 9% |
| Environmental Science | 8 | 8% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 5 | 5% |
| Computer Science | 3 | 3% |
| Other | 6 | 6% |
| Unknown | 15 | 15% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 19 April 2019.
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#5,667,659
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#1,214
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#60,979
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Outputs of similar age from Microbiome
#5
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