More than 9,000,000 Unique Genes in Human Gut Bacterial Community: Estimating Gene Numbers Inside a Human Body

• Xing Yang,

  Affiliations Shanghai Center for Bioinformation Technology, Shanghai, China, School of Life Science and Technology, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

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• Lu Xie,

  Affiliation Shanghai Center for Bioinformation Technology, Shanghai, China

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• Yixue Li ,

  * E-mail: yxli@sibs.ac.cn (YXL); ccwei@sjtu.edu.cn (CCW)

  Affiliations Shanghai Center for Bioinformation Technology, Shanghai, China, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, Bioinformation Center, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China

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• Chaochun Wei

  * E-mail: yxli@sibs.ac.cn (YXL); ccwei@sjtu.edu.cn (CCW)

  Affiliations Shanghai Center for Bioinformation Technology, Shanghai, China, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, Lab of Molecular Microbial Ecology and Ecogenomics, School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

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