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Human Microbiome Project, Reference Genomes, Rationale, Selection, Acquisition, Sequencing, and Annotation

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Highlander, S. (2014). Human Microbiome Project, Reference Genomes, Rationale, Selection, Acquisition, Sequencing, and Annotation. In: Nelson, K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Metagenomics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6418-1_30-1

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