Deriving accurate microbiota profiles from human samples with low bacterial content through post-sequencing processing of Illumina MiSeq data

Microbiome

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Jervis Bardy, Jake ^a,b,c   Leong, Lex E X ^c   Marri, Shashikanth ^b   Smith, Renee J ^c,d   Choo, Jocelyn M ^c   Smith Vaughan, Heidi C ^a   Nosworthy, Elizabeth ^a   Morris, Peter S ^a   O’leary, Stephen ^e   Rogers, Geraint B ^b,c   Marsh, Robyn L ^a  

^a MENZIES SCHOOL OF HEALTH RESEARCH   (Australia)

^b FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c SOUTH AUSTRALIAN HEALTH AND MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^d FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

16S rRNA; Contamination; MiSeq; Otitis media; Pair end reads; QIIME; Respiratory

Indexed keywords

EID: 85131755527     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20492618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s40168-015-0083-8     Document Type: Article

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