Extending and improving metagenomic taxonomic profiling with uncharacterized species using MetaPhlAn 4

Aitor Blanco‐Míguez; Francesco Beghini; Fabio Cumbo; Lauren J. McIver; Kelsey N. Thompson; Moreno Zolfo; Paolo Manghi; Léonard Dubois; Kun D. Huang; Andrew Maltez Thomas; William A. Nickols; Gianmarco Piccinno; Elisa Piperni; Michal Punčochář; Mireia Vallés-Colomer; Adrian Tett; Francesca Giordano; Richard Davies; Jonathan Wolf; Sarah Berry; Tim D. Spector; Eric A. Franzosa; Edoardo Pasolli; Francesco Asnicar; Curtis Huttenhower; Nicola Segata

doi:10.1038/s41587-023-01688-w

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MetagenomicsBiologyMicrobiomeGenomeComputational biologyOrganismHuman Microbiome ProjectProfiling (computer programming)GeneModel organismBiological classificationHuman microbiomeGeneticsEvolutionary biology

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Year: 2023
Type: article
Volume: 41
Issue: 11
Pages: 1633-1644
Citations: 1007
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                                    Aitor Blanco‐Míguez, 
                                
                                    Francesco Beghini, 
                                
                                    Fabio Cumbo
                                
                                et al.
                            
                            (2023). 
                            Extending and improving metagenomic taxonomic profiling with uncharacterized species using MetaPhlAn 4. 
                            Nature Biotechnology
                            , 41
                            (11)
                            , 1633-1644.
                            https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-023-01688-w
                        

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DOI: 10.1038/s41587-023-01688-w