From genus to phylum: Large-subunit and internal transcribed spacer rRNA operon regions show similar classification accuracies influenced by database composition

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 829-840

  Porras Alfaro, Andrea ^a   Liu, Kuan Liang ^b,c   Kuske, Cheryl R ^c   Xiec, Gary ^c  

^a WESTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENCE; FRAGMENT SIZES; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACERS; NAIVE BAYESIAN CLASSIFIER; TRAINING SETS; TWO SECTION;

BIOTECHNOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY;

RNA;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; BOOTSTRAPPING; CLASSIFICATION; DATABASE; FUNGUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; RNA; TAXONOMY;

RIBOSOME RNA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 26S; SPACER DNA;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVALUATION STUDY; FUNGUS; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; PHYLOGENY;

CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, INTERGENIC; FUNGI; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL;

EID: 84892984836     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02894-13     Document Type: Article

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