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SUBMITTER: Hasan NA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4028220 | biostudies-literature | 2014
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hasan Nur A NA Young Brian A BA Minard-Smith Angela T AT Saeed Kelly K Li Huai H Heizer Esley M EM McMillan Nancy J NJ Isom Richard R Abdullah Abdul Shakur AS Bornman Daniel M DM Faith Seth A SA Choi Seon Young SY Dickens Michael L ML Cebula Thomas A TA Colwell Rita R RR
PloS one 20140520 5
Human saliva is clinically informative of both oral and general health. Since next generation shotgun sequencing (NGS) is now widely used to identify and quantify bacteria, we investigated the bacterial flora of saliva microbiomes of two healthy volunteers and five datasets from the Human Microbiome Project, along with a control dataset containing short NGS reads from bacterial species representative of the bacterial flora of human saliva. GENIUS, a system designed to identify and quantify bacte ...[more]