Artificial and natural duplicates in pyrosequencing reads of metagenomic data

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Artificial duplicates from pyrosequencing reads may lead to incorrect interpretation of the abundance of species and genes in metagenomic studies. Duplicated reads were filtered out in many metagenomic projects. However, since the du...

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Main Authors: Li Weizhong, Sun Shulei, Fu Limin, Niu Beifang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2010-04-01
Series:BMC Bioinformatics
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/11/187