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Marker gene metagenomics (16S, ITS...)
 
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11-Apr-2017 UNBIAS paper:
16S read abundance does not correlate with species abundance!

11-Apr-2017
Search_16S paper: new method for finding 16S genes in chromosomes and contigs.

28-Dec-2016 USEARCH v9.2 posted. What's new.

24-Nov-2016 UPARSE tutorial video posted on YouTube. Make OTUs from MiSeq reads.

19-Nov-2016 UNCROSS paper posted. 2% of Illumina reads are assigned to wrong sample!