EBI metagenomics - a new resource for the analysis and archiving of metagenomic data
Metagenomics is a relatively recently established but rapidly expanding field that uses high-throughput next-generation sequencing technologies to characterize the microbial communities inhabiting different ecosystems (including oceans, lakes, soil, tundra, plants and body sites). Metagenomics bring...
Published in: | Nucleic Acids Research |
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Main Authors: | , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |
Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2014
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Online Access: | http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/509540/ https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/509540/1/N509540JA.pdf http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/content/42/D1/D600.full.pdf+html |
Summary: | Metagenomics is a relatively recently established but rapidly expanding field that uses high-throughput next-generation sequencing technologies to characterize the microbial communities inhabiting different ecosystems (including oceans, lakes, soil, tundra, plants and body sites). Metagenomics brings with it a number of challenges, including the management, analysis, storage and sharing of data. In response to these challenges, we have developed a new metagenomics resource (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/metagenomics/) that allows users to easily submit raw nucleotide reads for functional and taxonomic analysis by a state-of-the-art pipeline, and have them automatically stored (together with descriptive, standards-compliant metadata) in the European Nucleotide Archive. |
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