Wrinkles in the rare biosphere: pyrosequencing errors can lead to artificial inflation of diversity estimates.

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Summary

It is found that 16S rDNA diversity is grossly overestimated unless relatively stringent read quality filtering and low clustering thresholds are applied, and stringent quality-based trimming of 16S pyrotags and clustering threshold no greater than 97% identity should be used to avoid overestimates of the rare biosphere.

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Published
2009-09-01
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Keywords

Biosphere, Pyrosequencing, Diversity (politics), Ecology, Computer science

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