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Metagenomics

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Sequencing the pooled DNA of a whole community to study microbes without culturing them.

Disciplines
Microbiology · Bioinformatics
Role in the graph
Cross-disciplinary bridge — reaches Biochemistry, Cell Biology, Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, Genetics, Molecular Biology
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3 · 2 relation families
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  • This view connects 20 disciplines: Algorithms, Biochemistry, Bioinformatics, Biology, Cell Biology, Communication Science, Computer Science, Data Structures, Discrete Mathematics, Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, Genetics, History, Information Theory, Logic, Mathematics, Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Software Engineering, Theory of Computation.
  • Metagenomics is a bridge concept — viewed here through Bioinformatics, Microbiology.
  • The connections here span 4 relation families.
  • Information explains 6 concepts in this view (Algorithms, Biochemistry, Bioinformatics, Biology, Cell Biology, Communication Science, Computer Science, Data Structures, Discrete Mathematics, Evolutionary Biology, Genetics, History, Information Theory, Logic, Mathematics, Molecular Biology, Software Engineering, Theory of Computation).

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