@phdthesis{Foerstner2008,
  author    = {F{\"o}rstner, Konrad Ulrich},
  title     = {Computational analysis of metagenomic data: delineation of compositional features and screens for desirable enzymes},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-33577},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t W{\"u}rzburg},
  year      = {2008},
  abstract  = {The topic of my doctorial research was the computational analysis of metagenomic data. A metagenome comprises the genomic information from all the microorganisms within a certain environment. The currently available metagenomic data sets cover only parts of these usually huge metagenomes due to the high technical and financial effort of such sequencing endeavors. During my thesis I developed bioinformatic tools and applied them to analyse genomic features of different metagenomic data sets and to search for enzymes of importance for biotechnology or pharmaceutical applications in those sequence collections. In these studies nine metagenomic projects (with up to 41 subsamples) were analysed. These samples originated from diverse environments like farm soil, acid mine drainage, microbial mats on whale bones, marine water, fresh water, water treatment sludges and the human gut flora. Additionally, data sets of conventionally retrieved sequence data were taken into account and compared with each other},
  subject      = {Bioinformatik},
  language  = {en}
}