Advances in Bioinformatics
Volume 2008 (2008), Article ID 205969, 12 pages
doi:10.1155/2008/205969
Research Article

Metagenome Fragment Classification Using N-Mer Frequency Profiles

Gail Rosen,1 Elaine Garbarine,1 Diamantino Caseiro,2 Robi Polikar,3 and Bahrad Sokhansanj4

1Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
2Spoken Language Systems Laboratory, INESC-ID, 1000 Lisbon, Portugal
3Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ 08028, USA
4School of Biomedical Engineering, Science & Health Systems, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19130, USA

Received 5 June 2008; Revised 19 September 2008; Accepted 30 September 2008

Academic Editor: Rita Casadio

Copyright © 2008 Gail Rosen et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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