Bioinformatics in environmental metagenomics
Date: 15.12.2006
It is well known in environmental microbiology that using conventional methods, cultured microorganisms represents no more than 1% of the microorganisms present in the vast majority of environmental habitats. Consequently, a huge metabolic diversity still remains to be explored and discovered. With the aim to study and use the information contained in the genomes of uncultured microbes, environmental microbiologists have been investigating microbial communities since the 1990's applying metagenomic based approaches.
The advanced Workbenches from CLC bio are used to help on the focused research by making common bioinformatics tools ready at hand and easy to use. The integrated framework of the CLC Workbenches is used to effectively support work processes in a number of scientific purposes such as design of cloning strategies, primers, assembly of contigs obtained from clones containing environmental DNA, creation of local databases, and BLAST searches in both local and NCBI databases.
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