Quality-filtering vastly improves diversity estimates from Illumina amplicon sequencing

Nicholas A. Bokulich, Sathish Subramanian, Jeremiah J. Faith, Dirk Gevers, Jeffrey I. Gordon, Rob Knight, David A. Mills, J. Gregory Caporaso

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Abstract

High-throughput sequencing has revolutionized microbial ecology, but read quality remains a considerable barrier to accurate taxonomy assignment and α-diversity assessment for microbial communities. We demonstrate that high-quality read length and abundance are the primary factors differentiating correct from erroneous reads produced by Illumina GAIIx, HiSeq and MiSeq instruments. We present guidelines for user-defined quality-filtering strategies, enabling efficient extraction of high-quality data and facilitating interpretation of Illumina sequencing results.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)57-59
Number of pages3
JournalNature Methods
Volume10
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 2013
Externally publishedYes

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