Longer DNA Fragments Reveal Rare Species Diversity
Wednesday, April 1, 2015 - 13:00
in Biology & Nature
In the April 2015 issue of Genome Research, a team including DOE JGI researchers compared two ways of using next generation Illumina sequencing machines to help with a metagenomics challenge where the more commonly used sequencing machines generate data in short lengths, while short-read assemblers may not be able to distinguish among multiple occurrences of the same or similar sequences, making it difficult to identify all the members in a microbial community.