Evaluation of 16S rRNA Databases for Taxonomic Assignments Using a Mock Community

Evaluation of 16S rRNA Databases for Taxonomic Assignments Using a Mock Community

Taxonomic identification is fundamental to all microbiology studies. Particularly in metagenomics, which identifies the composition of microorganisms using thousands of sequences, its importance is even greater. Identification is inevitably affected by the choice of database. This study was conducte...

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Main Authors: Sang-Cheol Park, Sungho Won
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BioMed Central 2018-12-01
Series:Genomics & Informatics
Subjects:
classification
evaluation studies
genetic databases
microbiota
RNA
technology assessment
16S ribosomal
Online Access:http://genominfo.org/upload/pdf/gi-2018-16-4-e24.pdf

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