This web site and the tools you find here were developed by students and faculty of the Initiative for Bioinformatics and Evolutionary Studies (IBEST) at the University of Idaho who are members of the Departments of Computer Science and Biological Sciences. The research was funded by the P&G Company.
You can access an introduction to the tools available and instructions for their use by clicking the Help icon on the Home Page menu.
We hope you will find MiCA useful. Please email us any comments,suggestions or questions.
Shyu, C., Soule, T., Bent, S.J., Foster, J.A., Forney, L.J. (2007) MiCA: A Web-Based Tool for the Analysis of Microbial Communities Based on Terminal-Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphisms of 16S and 18S rRNA Genes. Journal of Microbial Ecology 53:562-570.