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Such a full-range approach, however, is difficult to realize owing to the limited coverage of available reference data. In particular, archaea and viruses are generally not well represented by current genome databases.<\/jats:p><jats:p>Results: We introduce a novel approach to taxonomic profiling of metagenomes that is based on mixture model analysis of protein signatures. Our results on simulated and real data reveal the difficulties of the existing methods when measuring achaeal or viral abundances and show the overall good profiling performance of the protein-based mixture model. As an application example, we provide a large-scale analysis of data from the Human Microbiome Project. This demonstrates the utility of our method as a first instance profiling tool for a fast estimate of the community structure.<\/jats:p><jats:p>Availability: \u00a0http:\/\/gobics.de\/TaxyPro.<\/jats:p><jats:p>Contact: \u00a0pmeinic@gwdg.de<\/jats:p><jats:p>Supplementary information: \u00a0Supplementary Material is available at Bioinformatics online.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btt077","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2013,2,16]],"date-time":"2013-02-16T05:36:01Z","timestamp":1360992961000},"page":"973-980","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":32,"title":["Protein signature-based estimation of metagenomic abundances including all domains of life and viruses"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"29","author":[{"given":"Heiner","family":"Klingenberg","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Bioinformatics, Institute for Microbiology and Genetics, University of G\u00f6ttingen, 37077 G\u00f6ttingen, Germany"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Kathrin Petra","family":"A\u00dfhauer","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Bioinformatics, Institute for Microbiology and Genetics, University of G\u00f6ttingen, 37077 G\u00f6ttingen, Germany"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Thomas","family":"Lingner","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Bioinformatics, Institute for Microbiology and Genetics, University of G\u00f6ttingen, 37077 G\u00f6ttingen, Germany"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Peter","family":"Meinicke","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Bioinformatics, Institute for Microbiology and Genetics, University of G\u00f6ttingen, 37077 G\u00f6ttingen, Germany"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2013,2,15]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023012810294595700_btt077-B1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"403","DOI":"10.1016\/S0022-2836(05)80360-2","article-title":"Basic local alignment search tool","volume":"215","author":"Altschul","year":"1990","journal-title":"J. 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