Boosting natural history research via metagenomic clean-up of crowdsourced feces

Amrita Srivathsan; Niranjan Nagarajan; Rudolf Meier

doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.3000517

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Boosting natural history research via metagenomic clean-up of crowdsourced feces

Amrita Srivathsan,

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore
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Niranjan Nagarajan,

Affiliations Computational and Systems Biology, Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore, School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore
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Rudolf Meier

* E-mail: meier@nus.edu.sg

Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Tropical Marine Science Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4452-2885

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Boosting natural history research via metagenomic clean-up of crowdsourced feces

Amrita Srivathsan,
Niranjan Nagarajan,
Rudolf Meier

Published: November 7, 2019
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000517

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