The HTS barcode checker pipeline, a tool for automated detection of illegally traded species from high-throughput sequencing data

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Lammers, Youri ^a   Peelen, Tamara ^b   Vos, Rutger A ^a   Gravendeel, Barbara ^a,c,d  

^a NATURALIS BIODIVERSITY CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Dutch Customs Laboratory   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES LEIDEN   (Netherlands)

^d LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Biodiversity informatics; High throughput sequencing; Taxonomy; Wildlife forensics

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED DETECTION; AUTOMATED PROCESSING; ENDANGERED SPECIES; HIGH-THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; INFORMATICS; TAXONOMIC IDENTIFICATIONS; TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE; WILDLIFE FORENSICS;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION; DNA; DNA SEQUENCES; GENE ENCODING; INTERNATIONAL TRADE; MIXTURES; PIPELINES; TAXONOMIES;

BAR CODES;

HERBACEOUS AGENT;

ARTICLE; CHINESE MEDICINE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DNA BARCODING; ENDANGERED SPECIES; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LEGAL ASPECT; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEIC ACID DATABASE;

CLASSIFICATION; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; DNA BARCODING, TAXONOMIC; DRUGS, CHINESE HERBAL; ENDANGERED SPECIES; INTERNATIONALITY; MEDICINE, CHINESE TRADITIONAL; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84893181728     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-15-44     Document Type: Article

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