| Literature DB >> 31124709 |
Clarisse Marotz1, Anukriti Sharma2, Greg Humphrey1, Neil Gottel2, Christopher Daum3, Jack A Gilbert2, Emiley Eloe-Fadrosh3, Rob Knight1,4,5.
Abstract
Conventional wisdom holds that PCR amplification for sequencing should employ pooled replicate reactions to reduce bias due to jackpot effects and chimera formation. However, modern amplicon data analysis employs methods that may be less sensitive to such artifacts. Here we directly compare results from single versus triplicate reactions for 16S amplicon sequencing and find no significant impact of adopting a less labor-intensive single-reaction protocol.Entities:
Keywords: 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing; PCR; microbiome; replicate PCR reactions
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Year: 2019 PMID: 31124709 PMCID: PMC7030937 DOI: 10.2144/btn-2018-0192
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Biotechniques ISSN: 0736-6205 Impact factor: 1.993