Methodology article
An application of statistics to comparative metagenomics
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* Corresponding author: Robert A Edwards redwards@salmonella.org
1 Computational Science Research Center, San Diego State University, San Diego, USA
2 Center for Microbial Sciences, San Diego State University, San Diego, USA
3 Department of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, USA
4 Fellowship for Interpretation of Genomes, Burr Ridge, USA
BMC Bioinformatics 2006, 7:162 doi:10.1186/1471-2105-7-162
Published: 20 March 2006Additional files
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Step-by-step description of the methods used to calculate the differences between subsystems
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A tar gzip compressed archive of source code and instructions for calculating difference of medians as described here. Version 0.01 of the software, released under the terms of the Gnu General Public License (GPL).
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Presence of subsystems in different environmental samples in tab-separated text format.
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Presence of subsystems in the AMD, Sargasso, and SEED samples in tab-separated text format.
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Abundance of selected Kegg Pathways and Subsystems that are approximately similar as detected either based on the Normalized differences of Tringe et al (reference 6) or using the method described herein. Note that the relative gene content of the subsystems and Kegg pathways is never identical.
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