Fact and Fiction about 1%: Next Generation Sequencing and the Detection of Minor Drug Resistant Variants in HIV-1 Populations with and without Unique Molecular Identifiers

Next generation sequencing (NGS) platforms have the ability to generate almost limitless numbers of sequence reads starting with a PCR product. This gives the illusion that it is possible to analyze minor variants in a viral population. However, including a PCR step obscures the sampling depth of th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Shuntai Zhou, Ronald Swanstrom
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-08-01
Series:Viruses
Subjects:
HIV
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/12/8/850