Accurate determination of microbial diversity from 454 pyrosequencing data.

Quince, Christopher; Lanzén, Anders; Curtis, Thomas P; Davenport, Russell J; Hall, Neil; Head, Ian M; Read, L Fiona; Sloan, William T · Nat Methods · 2009

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

We present an algorithm, PyroNoise, that clusters the flowgrams of 454 pyrosequencing reads using a distance measure that models sequencing noise. This infers the true sequences in a collection of amplicons. We pyrosequenced a known mixture of microbial 16S rDNA sequences extracted from a lake and found that without noise reduction the number of operational taxonomic units is overestimated but using PyroNoise it can be accurately calculated.

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