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An application of statistics to comparative metagenomics

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Title
An application of statistics to comparative metagenomics
Published in
BMC Bioinformatics, March 2006
DOI 10.1186/1471-2105-7-162
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Beltran Rodriguez-Brito, Forest Rohwer, Robert A Edwards

Abstract

Metagenomics, sequence analyses of genomic DNA isolated directly from the environments, can be used to identify organisms and model community dynamics of a particular ecosystem. Metagenomics also has the potential to identify significantly different metabolic potential in different environments.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 26 6%
Brazil 8 2%
United Kingdom 6 1%
Germany 5 1%
France 5 1%
Spain 4 <1%
India 3 <1%
Sweden 3 <1%
Switzerland 2 <1%
Other 20 4%
Unknown 384 82%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 119 26%
Researcher 119 26%
Student > Master 58 12%
Professor > Associate Professor 37 8%
Professor 24 5%
Other 83 18%
Unknown 26 6%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 281 60%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 36 8%
Environmental Science 31 7%
Computer Science 17 4%
Medicine and Dentistry 11 2%
Other 52 11%
Unknown 38 8%