Assessing and Improving Methods Used in Operational Taxonomic Unit-Based Approaches for 16S rRNA Gene Sequence Analysis

Search and clustering orders of magnitude faster than BLAST

(2010) Robert C. Edgar   BIOINFORMATICS

Ironing out the wrinkles in the rare biosphere through improved OTU clustering

(2010) Susan M. Huse et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

The Effects of Alignment Quality, Distance Calculation Method, Sequence Filtering, and Region on the Analysis of 16S rRNA Gene-Based Studies

(2010) Patrick D. Schloss   PLoS Computational Biology

Introducing mothur: Open-Source, Platform-Independent, Community-Supported Software for Describing and Comparing Microbial Communities

(2009) P. D. Schloss et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Wrinkles in the rare biosphere: pyrosequencing errors can lead to artificial inflation of diversity estimates

(2009) Victor Kunin et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

ESPRIT: estimating species richness using large collections of 16S rRNA pyrosequences

(2009) Yijun Sun et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

A High-Throughput DNA Sequence Aligner for Microbial Ecology Studies

(2009) Patrick D. Schloss   PLoS One

Accurate taxonomy assignments from 16S rRNA sequences produced by highly parallel pyrosequencers

(2008) Z. Liu et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Exploring Microbial Diversity and Taxonomy Using SSU rRNA Hypervariable Tag Sequencing

(2008) Susan M. Huse et al.   PLoS Genetics