Unexpected cross-species contamination in genome sequencing projects

PeerJ

Volumn 2014, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Merchant, Samier ^a,b   Wood, Derrick E ^a,c   Salzberg, Steven L ^a,c  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^b Brown Univerity   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioinformatics; DNA sequencing; Genome assembly; Genomics; Microbiome; Sequence analysis

Indexed keywords

ACETABULARIA ACETABULUM; ACINETOBACTER; ANOPHELES DARLINGI; ARTICLE; AURICULARIA; AURICULARIA DELICATA; BIOINFORMATICS; BOS TAURUS; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS BRENNERI; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CLEMENTINE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; MICROBIOME; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PSEUDOMONAS; SCHISTOSOMA HEMATOBIUM; STENOTROPHOMONAS;

EID: 84911419757     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21678359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.675     Document Type: Article

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