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Quality-filtering vastly improves diversity estimates from Illumina amplicon sequencing

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Bokulich, Nicholas A, Subramanian, Sathish, Faith, Jeremiah J, Gevers, Dirk, Gordon, Jeffrey I, Knight, Rob, Mills, David A, Caporaso, J Gregory·2013·Nature Methods

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High-throughput sequencing has revolutionized microbial ecology, but read quality remains a considerable barrier to accurate taxonomy assignment and α-diversity assessment for microbial communities. We demonstrate that high-quality read length and abundance are the primary factors differentiating correct from erroneous reads produced by Illumina GAIIx, HiSeq and MiSeq instruments. We present guidelines for user-defined quality-filtering strategies, enabling efficient extraction of high-quality data and facilitating interpretation of Illumina sequencing results.

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Authors
Bokulich, N. A., Subramanian, S., Faith, J. J., Gevers, D., Gordon, J. I., Knight, R., Mills, D. A., & Caporaso, J. G.
Venue
Nature Methods
Published
2013-01
Volume
10
Issue
1
Pages
57-59
ISSN
  • 1548-7091 (ISSN-L)
  • 1548-7105
OpenAlex
W2086865963
Cited by
4,401
References
4
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17.54
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
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Bokulich, N. A., Subramanian, S., Faith, J. J., Gevers, D., Gordon, J. I., Knight, R., Mills, D. A., & Caporaso, J. G. (2013). Quality-filtering vastly improves diversity estimates from Illumina amplicon sequencing. Nature Methods. https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.2276

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