Performance comparison of Illumina and Ion Torrent next-generation sequencing platforms for 16S rRNA-based bacterial community profiling

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 80, Issue 24, 2014, Pages 7583-7591

  Salipante, Stephen J ^a   Kawashima, Toana ^a   Rosenthal, Christopher ^a   Hoogestraat, Daniel R ^a   Cummings, Lisa A ^a   Sengupta, Dhruba J ^a   Harkins, Timothy T ^b   Cookson, Brad T ^a   Hoffman, Noah G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b Life Technologies   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; IONS; RNA;

BACTERIAL COMMUNITY; HIGH-THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN SPECIMENS; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NEXT-GENERATION SEQUENCING; PERFORMANCE COMPARISON; PERSONAL GENOMES; SEQUENCE ERROR RATE;

BACTERIA;

ERROR ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; RNA; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

BACTERIAL DNA; RNA 16S;

BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEVICES; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; DNA, BACTERIAL; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

EID: 84917709088     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02206-14     Document Type: Article

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