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Richard Allen White III, Ajay Panyala, Kevin Glass, Sean Colby, Christer Jansson, Janet K Jansson. 
MerCat: a versatile counter and estimator for data base independent property analysis obtained from 
metagenomic and/or metatranscriptomic sequencing data. PeerJ Computional Biology. Pre-Print.

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