A perspective on 16S rRNA operational taxonomic unit clustering using sequence similarity

npj Biofilms and Microbiomes

Volumn 2, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Nguyen, Nam Phuong ^a   Warnow, Tandy ^a,b,c   Pop, Mihai ^d   White, Bryan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b United States of America   (United States)

^c University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^d University of Maryland   (United States)

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EID: 85016922856     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20555008     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/npjbiofilms.2016.4     Document Type: Review

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