Background: The public availability of over 180,000 bacterial 16S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) sequences has facilitated microbial identification and classification using hybridization an...
Zhengdong Zhang, George W. Jackson, George E. Fox,...
Background: Taxon specific hybridization probes in combination with a variety of commonly used hybridization formats nowadays are standard tools in microbial identification. A fre...
Yadhu Kumar, Ralf Westram, Sebastian Behrens, Bern...
Background: Clustering the ESTs from a large dataset representing a single species is a convenient starting point for a number of investigations into gene discovery, genome evolut...
The ability to identify the mineral composition of rocks and soils is an important tool for the exploration of geological sites. Even though expert knowledge is commonly used for t...
Jonathan Moody, Ricardo Bezerra de Andrade e Silva...
Plankton form the base of the food chain in the ocean and are fundamental to marine ecosystem dynamics. The rapid mapping of plankton abundance together with taxonomic and size com...
Xiaoou Tang, W. Kenneth Stewart, He Huang, Scott M...