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DADA2: High–resolution sample inference from Illumina amplicon data

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Callahan, Benjamin J, McMurdie, Paul J, Rosen, Michael J, Han, Andrew W, Johnson, Amy Jo A, Holmes, Susan P·2016·Nature Methods

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We present the open-source software package DADA2 for modeling and correcting Illumina-sequenced amplicon errors (https://github.com/benjjneb/dada2). DADA2 infers sample sequences exactly and resolves differences of as little as 1 nucleotide. In several mock communities, DADA2 identified more real variants and output fewer spurious sequences than other methods. We applied DADA2 to vaginal samples from a cohort of pregnant women, revealing a diversity of previously undetected Lactobacillus crispatus variants.

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Callahan, B. J., McMurdie, P. J., Rosen, M. J., Han, A. W., Johnson, A. J. A., & Holmes, S. P.
Affiliations
  • Stanford University (US)
  • Second Genome (United States) (US)
Corresponding author
Callahan, Benjamin J
Venue
Nature Methods
Published
2016-05-23
Volume
13
Issue
7
Pages
581-583
ISSN
  • 1548-7091 (ISSN-L)
  • 1548-7105
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W2401404581
Cited by
35,698
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28
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272.82
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journal article
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en
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  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (acceptedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
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  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
  • National Science Foundation (1162538)
  • National Institutes of Health
  • National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (R01AI112401)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
Keywords
DADA2, amplicon sequence variants, sequencing error correction, noise reduction, microbial community sequencing, single-nucleotide resolution, mock communities, vaginal microbiota, Lactobacillus crispatus, pregnant women, open-source bioinformatics software
MeSH terms
Animals, DNA, Bacterial, False Positive Reactions, Feces, Female, Humans, Lactobacillus, Pregnancy, RNA, Ribosomal, 16S, Software, Vagina, Reproducibility of Results, Cohort Studies, Sequence Analysis, DNA, Computational Biology, Mice, High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing, Microbiota

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