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. 2016 May;13(5):435-8.
doi: 10.1038/nmeth.3802. Epub 2016 Mar 21.

Strain-level microbial epidemiology and population genomics from shotgun metagenomics

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Strain-level microbial epidemiology and population genomics from shotgun metagenomics

Matthias Scholz et al. Nat Methods. 2016 May.

Abstract

Identifying microbial strains and characterizing their functional potential is essential for pathogen discovery, epidemiology and population genomics. We present pangenome-based phylogenomic analysis (PanPhlAn; http://segatalab.cibio.unitn.it/tools/panphlan), a tool that uses metagenomic data to achieve strain-level microbial profiling resolution. PanPhlAn recognized outbreak strains, produced the largest strain-level population genomic study of human-associated bacteria and, in combination with metatranscriptomics, profiled the transcriptional activity of strains in complex communities.

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