How would I go about metagenomic studies in a water environment

Becky Aloo @Becky_Aloo2

05 May 2015 1 6K Report

Bacterial metagenomics

Enzyme identification and extraction

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Poster Development of Bio-Monitoring Model for Environmental Metagenomics

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