Using pseudoalignment and base quality to accurately quantify microbial community composition.

Pooled DNA from multiple unknown organisms arises in a variety of contexts, for example microbial samples from ecological or human health research. Determining the composition of pooled samples can be difficult, especially at the scale of modern sequencing data and reference databases. Here we propo...

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Main Authors: Mark Reppell, John Novembre
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-04-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5945057?pdf=render