PIPITS: An automated pipeline for analyses of fungal internal transcribed spacer sequences from the Illumina sequencing platform

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 973-980

  Gweon, Hyun S ^a   Oliver, Anna ^a   Taylor, Joanne ^b   Booth, Tim ^a   Gibbs, Melanie ^a   Read, Daniel S ^a   Griffiths, Robert I ^a   Schonrogge, Karsten ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bioinformatics; DNA metabarcoding; Fungi; Internal transcribed spacer; Pipeline

Indexed keywords

FUNGI;

EID: 84939470591     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12399     Document Type: Article

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