Taxonomic reference libraries for environmental barcoding: a best practice example from diatom research.

DNA barcoding uses a short fragment of a DNA sequence to identify a taxon. After obtaining the target sequence it is compared to reference sequences stored in a database to assign an organism name to it. The quality of data in the reference database is the key to the success of the analysis. In the...

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Main Authors: Jonas Zimmermann, Nelida Abarca, Neela Enke, Oliver Skibbe, Wolf-Henning Kusber, Regine Jahn
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0108793