Evaluating and optimizing the performance of software commonly used for the taxonomic classification of DNA metabarcoding sequence data

Molecular Ecology Resources

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 760-769

  Richardson, Rodney T ^a   Bengtsson Palme, Johan ^b,c   Johnson, Reed M ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

DNA barcoding; DNA metabarcoding; rdp Na ve Bayesian Classifier; rtax; taxonomic assignment; utax

Indexed keywords

BAYES THEOREM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA BARCODING; PROCEDURES; SOFTWARE;

BAYES THEOREM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA BARCODING, TAXONOMIC; SOFTWARE;

EID: 85005983418     PISSN: 1755098X     EISSN: 17550998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.12628     Document Type: Article

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