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Interpreting the unculturable majority

Nature Methods volume 4, pages 479–480 (2007) Cite this article

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New methods are necessary for the analysis and interpretation of massive amounts of metagenomic data.

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  1. Lior Pachter is in the Departments of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, USA. lpachter@math.berkeley.edu,

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