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SUBMITTER: Pereira F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3001097 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Pereira Filipe F Carneiro João J Matthiesen Rune R van Asch Barbara B Pinto Nádia N Gusmão Leonor L Amorim António A
Nucleic acids research 20101004 22
The quest for a universal and efficient method of identifying species has been a longstanding challenge in biology. Here, we show that accurate identification of species in all domains of life can be accomplished by multiplex analysis of variable-length sequences containing multiple insertion/deletion variants. The new method, called SPInDel, is able to discriminate 93.3% of eukaryotic species from 18 taxonomic groups. We also demonstrate that the identification of prokaryotic and viral species ...[more]