Influence of artifact removal on rare species recovery in natural complex communities using high-throughput sequencing.

Large-scale high-throughput sequencing techniques are rapidly becoming popular methods to profile complex communities and have generated deep insights into community biodiversity. However, several technical problems, especially sequencing artifacts such as nucleotide calling errors, could artificial...

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Main Authors: Aibin Zhan, Wei Xiong, Song He, Hugh J Macisaac
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4011962?pdf=render