Chimeric 16S rRNA sequence formation and detection in Sanger and 454-pyrosequenced PCR amplicons.

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Summary

A new chimera detection tool called Chimera Slayer (CS), which detects chimeras with greater sensitivity than previous methods, performs well on short sequences such as those produced by the 454 Life Sciences (Roche) Genome Sequencer, and can scale to large data sets.

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2011-03-01
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Biology, Chimera (genetics), Metagenomics, Amplicon, Shotgun sequencing

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