Error-correcting barcoded primers for pyrosequencing hundreds of samples in multiplex.

Hamady, Micah; Walker, Jeffrey J; Harris, J Kirk; Gold, Nicholas J; Knight, Rob · Nat Methods · 2008

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

We constructed error-correcting DNA barcodes that allow one run of a massively parallel pyrosequencer to process up to 1,544 samples simultaneously. Using these barcodes we processed bacterial 16S rRNA gene sequences representing microbial communities in 286 environmental samples, corrected 92% of sample assignment errors, and thus characterized nearly as many 16S rRNA genes as have been sequenced to date by Sanger sequencing.

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