Taxonomic Profiling

Taxonomic Profiling is the computational analysis and quantification of microbial community composition that assigns sequencing reads to taxonomic units in order to determine the relative abundance of species within a given environmental or clinical sample.

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Metagenomics

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16S Ribosomal Rna ProfilingAccuracy AssessmentArchaeal Taxonomic ProfilingBacterial Taxonomic ProfilingConsensus TaxonomyDiversity EstimationEukaryotic Taxonomic ProfilingFunctional Annotation BiasMarker Gene ProfilingPhylogenetic Placement

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Introducing mothur: Open-Source, Platform-Independent, Community-Supported Software for Describing and Comparing Microbial Communities

Patrick D. Schloss, Sarah L. Westcott, Thomas Ryabin et al. · Applied and Environmental Microbiology · 2009 · 21.8K citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Bioinformatics, Microbiology +17

Global patterns of 16S rRNA diversity at a depth of millions of sequences per sample

J. Gregory Caporaso, Christian L. Lauber, William A. Walters et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2010 · 10K citations

Life Sciences, Biology, Microbiology +14

Predictive functional profiling of microbial communities using 16S rRNA marker gene sequences

Morgan G. I. Langille, Jesse Zaneveld, J. Gregory Caporaso et al. · Nature Biotechnology · 2013 · 9.4K citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Microbiology, Molecular Biology +16

STAMP: statistical analysis of taxonomic and functional profiles

Donovan H. Parks, Gene W. Tyson, Philip Hugenholtz et al. · Bioinformatics · 2014 · 4.3K citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Bioinformatics, Biostatistics +12

Every base matters: assessing small subunit <scp>rRNA</scp> primers for marine microbiomes with mock communities, time series and global field samples

Alma E. Parada, David M. Needham, Jed A. Fuhrman · Environmental Microbiology · 2015 · 4.2K citations

Life Sciences, Marine Biology, Microbiology +16

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Rob Knight
University of California San Diego, United States
37 publications · 35.8K citations
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J. Gregory Caporaso
Northern Arizona University, United States
15 publications · 25.3K citations
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Peter Vandamme
Ghent University, Belgium
15 publications · 1.1K citations
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Curtis Huttenhower
Harvard University, United States
12 publications · 17.3K citations
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Didier Raoult
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France
12 publications · 1.7K citations
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PLoS ONE
124 publications · 12.9K citations
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Applied and Environmental Microbiology
AEM · 81 publications · 33.3K citations
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Scientific Reports
84 publications · 7.9K citations
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Microbiome
48 publications · 6.6K citations
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Bioinformatics
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