@article {38109,
	title = {Alignment and clustering of phylogenetic markers - implications for microbial diversity studies},
	journal = {BMC BioinformaticsBMC Bioinformatics},
	volume = {11},
	year = {2010},
	type = {10.1186/1471-2105-11-152},
	abstract = {Molecular studies of microbial diversity have provided many insights into the bacterial communities inhabiting the human body and the environment. A common first step in such studies is a survey of conserved marker genes (primarily 16S rRNA) to characterize the taxonomic composition and diversity of these communities. To date, however, there exists significant variability in analysis methods employed in these studies.},
	isbn = {1471-2105},
	author = {White, James R. and Navlakha, Saket and Nagarajan, Niranjan and Ghodsi, Mohammad-Reza and Kingsford, Carl and M. Pop}
}
