High throughput ANI analysis of 90K prokaryotic genomes reveals clear species boundaries
Average Nucleotide Identity (ANI) is a robust and useful measure to gauge genetic relatedness between two genomes. Here, the authors develop FastANI, a method to compute ANI using alignment-free approximate sequence mapping, and show 95% ANI is an accurate threshold for demarcating prokaryotic speci...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
2018-11-01
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| Series: | Nature Communications |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07641-9 |