Comparison of Illumina paired-end and single-direction sequencing for microbial 16S rRNA gene amplicon surveys

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BiologyAmpliconAmplicon sequencingGeneticsIllumina dye sequencing16S ribosomal RNAComputational biologyMetagenomicsGeneRibosomal RNADeep sequencingPyrosequencingDNA sequencingPolymerase chain reactionGenome

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Year: 2011
Type: article
Volume: 6
Issue: 7
Pages: 1273-1276
Citations: 126
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                                    Jeffrey J. Werner, 
                                
                                    Dennis W. Zhou, 
                                
                                    J. Gregory Caporaso
                                
                                et al.
                            
                            (2011). 
                            Comparison of Illumina paired-end and single-direction sequencing for microbial 16S rRNA gene amplicon surveys. 
                            The ISME Journal
                            , 6
                            (7)
                            , 1273-1276.
                            https://doi.org/10.1038/ismej.2011.186
                        

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DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2011.186