OptiClust, an improved method for assigning amplicon-based sequence data to operational taxonomic units

mSphere

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2017, Pages

  Westcott, Sarah L ^a   Schloss, Patrick D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

16S rRNA gene; Bioinformatics; Microbial ecology; Microbiome

Indexed keywords

EID: 85030973816     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23795042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mSphere.00073-17     Document Type: Article

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