Chapter 12: Human Microbiome Analysis

PLoS Computational Biology - Tập 8 Số 12 - Trang e1002808
Xochitl C. Morgan1, Curtis Huttenhower1,2
1Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
2The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

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