An improved Greengenes taxonomy with explicit ranks for ecological and evolutionary analyses of bacteria and archaea

Reference phylogenies are crucial for providing a taxonomic framework for interpretation of marker gene and metagenomic surveys, which continue to reveal novel species at a remarkable rate. Greengenes is a dedicated full-length 16S rRNA gene database that provides users with a curated taxonomy based...

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Main Authors: McDonald, Daniel, Price, Morgan N, Goodrich, Julia, Nawrocki, Eric P, DeSantis, Todd Z, Probst, Alexander, Andersen, Gary L, Knight, Rob, Hugenholtz, Philip
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2012
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3280142/