GLOSSary: the GLobal Ocean 16S subunit web accessible resource.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Environmental metagenomics is a challenging approach that is exponentially spreading in the scientific community to investigate taxonomic diversity and possible functions of the biological components. The massive amount of sequence data produced, often endowed with rich environmental metadata, needs suitable computational tools to fully explore the embedded information. Bioinformatics plays a key role in providing methodologies to manage, process and mine molecular data, integrated with environmental metagenomics collections. One such relevant example is represented by the Tara Ocean Project.

Results

We considered the Tara 16S miTAGs released by the consortium, representing raw sequences from a shotgun metagenomics approach with similarities to 16S rRNA genes. We

SUBMITTER: Tangherlini M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6266928 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature