More than 9,000,000 Unique Genes in Human Gut Bacterial Community: Estimating Gene Numbers Inside a Human Body

作者: Xing Yang , Lu Xie , Yixue Li , Chaochun Wei

DOI: 10.1371/JOURNAL.PONE.0006074

关键词: Sequence analysisSequence alignmentGenomeBacterial geneticsGenome projectCounting problemGeneGeneticsHuman genomeComputational biologyBiologyGeneral Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyGeneral Agricultural and Biological SciencesGeneral Medicine

摘要: … a model to estimate the number of protein-coding genes in human gut bacterial community, the largest microbe community in or on human body. We estimate the number of genes in …

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