Interpretations of microbial community studies are biased by the selected 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing pipeline.
D. Straub, N. Blackwell, A. Langarica Fuentes, A. Peltzer, S. Nahnsen, S. Kleindienst
This paper compares 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing pipelines to identify biases in microbial community analysis and recommends QIIME2 as the most accurate tool.
Frontiers in Microbiology · Oct 23, 2020Peer-reviewedMicrobiology