Parsing ecological signal from noise in next generation amplicon sequencing

New Phytologist

Volumn 205, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1389-1393

  Nguyen, Nhu H ^a   Smith, Dylan ^b   Peay, Kabir ^b   Kennedy, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Control; Ecology; Fungi; Mock community; Next generation sequencing (NGS)

Indexed keywords

FUNGI;

CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA CONTAMINATION; ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS AND RELATED PHENOMENA; FUNGUS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA CONTAMINATION; ECOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL PHENOMENA; FUNGI; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO;

EID: 84922778461     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nph.12923     Document Type: Letter

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