Removed this sentence because it does not add additional useful info to the paragraph. Further, the reason studies were excluded included reasons such as the use of TRFLP or DGGE or PCR only as ways to assess the community. It also includes lack of follow up to correspondence.
"Our initial survey of the microbiome-colon cancer literature identified 26 datasets. We excluded Y studies because we were unable to obtain the sequence data (N=X), the metadata (N=X)."
marcsze
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6 years ago
Removed this sentence because it does not add additional useful info to the paragraph. Further, the reason studies were excluded included reasons such as the use of TRFLP or DGGE or PCR only as ways to assess the community. It also includes lack of follow up to correspondence.
"Our initial survey of the microbiome-colon cancer literature identified 26 datasets. We excluded Y studies because we were unable to obtain the sequence data (N=X), the metadata (N=X)."