Open-Source Sequence Clustering Methods Improve the State Of the Art

mSystems

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Kopylova, Evguenia ^a   Navas Molina, Jose A ^a,b   Mercier, Céline ^c   Xu, Zhenjiang Zech ^a   Mahé, Frédéric ^d   He, Yan ^e   Zhou, Hong Wei ^e   Rognes, Torbjørn ^f,g   Gregory Caporaso, J ^h   Knight, Rob ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^d Rheinland Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern Landau   (Germany)

^e SOUTHERN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^g OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^h NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amplicon sequencing; Microbial community analysis; Operational taxonomic units; Sequence clustering

Indexed keywords

EID: 85041918285     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23795077     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mSystems.00003-15     Document Type: Article

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