Approaches in metagenomics

If you have a metagenomics sequences such that there is no homologs or orthologs what would be the appropriate approaches to find their functions and find who they are?

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updated 8.4 years ago by Sej Modha

• written 8.4 years ago by Paul Paodumai •

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I'd try phmmer for protein domain signature identification.

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