At least 1 in 20 16S rRNA sequence records currently held in public repositories is estimated to contain substantial anomalies

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 71, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 7724-7736

  Ashelford, Kevin E ^a   Chuzhanova, Nadia A ^c   Fry, John C ^a   Jones, Antonia J ^b   Weightman, Andrew J ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; DATABASE SYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ERROR ANALYSIS; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIAL SYSTEMATICS; CHIMERAS; PUBLIC REPOSITORIES; SUBSTANTIAL ERRORS;

RNA;

RNA 16S;

DETECTION METHOD; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; SOFTWARE;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTEROIDES; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CHIMERA; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; INTERNET; LACTOBACILLUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RIBOSOME; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE DATABASE; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

BACTEROIDES; BASE SEQUENCE; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE DELETION; SOFTWARE;

ACTINOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDES; BACTEROIDETES PHYLUM; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LACTOBACILLUS; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 29144504177     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.71.12.7724-7736.2005     Document Type: Article

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