Patterns of cross-contamination in a multispecies population genomic project: detection, quantification, impact, and solutions
Abstract Background Contamination is a well-known but often neglected problem in molecular biology. Here, we investigated the prevalence of cross-contamination among 446 samples from 116 distinct species of animals, which were processed in the same laboratory and subjected to subcontracted transcrip...
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| Language: | English |
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BMC
2017-03-01
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| Series: | BMC Biology |
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| Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12915-017-0366-6 |