BioinformaticsGenome biologyPeer-reviewed
Metagenomic unmapped reads provide important insights into human microbiota and disease associations
Zifan Zhu, Jie Ren, Sonia K. Michail, Fengzhu Sun
The paper introduces MicroPro, a metagenomic analysis tool that improves disease association predictions by including reads from unknown organisms, and identifies new microbial and viral associations with colorectal cancer, type-2 diabetes, and liver cirrhosis.
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