Diverse and widespread contamination evident in the unmapped depths of high throughput sequencing data

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Lusk, Richard W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLANT DNA; BACTERIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CHLOROPLAST GENOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA CONTAMINATION; DNA LIBRARY; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE MAPPING; HELICONIACEAE; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN; INSECT GENOME; NONHUMAN; PLANT GENOME; PROPIONIBACTERIUM ACNES; SAMPLING ERROR; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STREPTOPHYTA; TOMATO; WOLBACHIA; GENETICS; STANDARDS;

DNA CONTAMINATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84908564504     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0110808     Document Type: Article

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