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Instead, a second type of error becomes of increasing importance: chimeric sequences from two or more templates during amplification. Performed the experiments: AJV FC JL RN.

(2004) Anthrax molecular epidemiology and forensics: using the appropriate marker for different evolutionary scales.
Bray-Curtis includes but does not differentially weight the abundance information.When using 16S rRNA gene sequencing to compare individuals it is not necessary to know which organisms are present, only whether the spectra of 16S rRNA gene sequences are similar and the degree of difference between samples.

(2009) Torque Teno Virus (TTV) distribution in healthy Russian population. More fundamentally, it is critical to ensure that minor genetic variants are not the result of PCR/sequencing artefacts. However, the sequence depth per unit cost is much greater using the Illumina platform, and greater sequencing depth would presumably favor the detection of rare virus sequences in metagenomic samples.

J Theor Biol 241: 669–675.Even in the best of all research worlds, errors, OTU inflation, chimeras, contamination, and other inaccuracies will still exist. Such metrics include the diversity of species in a sample (alpha diversity) and the closely related measures of richness and evenness that describe the quantity of species and the range of population sizes (Whittaker, 1960, 1972). As with conventionally sequenced clone libraries, each read in principle represents an SSU rRNA operon and is a proxy for a microbe from the sample.

As a result of the exceptional increases in numbers of reads and the lower cost associated with the Illumina platform, it is becoming more widely used for 16S rRNA gene-sequence profiling and continues the microbiome-analysis trend of deeper sampling at lower costs.Voyles J, Young S, Berger L, Campbell C, Voyles WF, et al. Bioinformatics 20: 3710–3715.An important outcome of this study is to show that deep, Illumina-based sequencing has at least two advantages over targeted, PCR-based assays for the assessment of viruses in clinical samples. Many factors contribute to data quality; in DNA sequencing, noise can be added at various steps in the pipeline. Infect Genet Evol 4: 205-213.In bacteriology, the genomic era began in 1995, when the first bacterial genome was sequenced using conventional Sanger sequencing (Fleischmann et al., 1995).


With the implementation of several vaccines against bacterial infections, the frequency of bacterial infections is low (Rudinsky et al., 2009; Waddle and Jhaveri, 2009; Watt et al., 2010; Wilkinson et al., 2009).

Will prices fall enough for it to be worth sequencing one bacterial genome per MinION, or will the long read lengths mean that we can mix samples and then disaggregate the genomes with little effort? 2011.

We do not know whether there are “one-size-fits-all” interventions for a given pathogen or a family of disease, or whether each outbreak is unique and will require a specifically tailored intervention.To document genetic variation in the genomes of multiple highly related strains, a mapping approach is efficient and often sufficient. Using the core seven used for MLST could allow some questions regarding time and place of isolation, host or niche, serotype, and some clinical or drug resistance profiles.