Species abundance information improves sequence taxonomy classification accuracy

Taxonomy classification of amplicon sequences is an important step in investigating microbial communities in microbiome analysis. Here, the authors show incorporating environment-specific taxonomic abundance information can lead to improved species-level classification accuracy across common sample...

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Main Authors: Benjamin D. Kaehler, Nicholas A. Bokulich, Daniel McDonald, Rob Knight, J. Gregory Caporaso, Gavin A. Huttley
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2019-10-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12669-6