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SUBMITTER: Silverman JD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8284789 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Silverman Justin D JD Bloom Rachael J RJ Jiang Sharon S Durand Heather K HK Dallow Eric E Mukherjee Sayan S David Lawrence A LA
PLoS computational biology 20210706 7
PCR amplification plays an integral role in the measurement of mixed microbial communities via high-throughput DNA sequencing of the 16S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) gene. Yet PCR is also known to introduce multiple forms of bias in 16S rRNA studies. Here we present a paired modeling and experimental approach to characterize and mitigate PCR NPM-bias (PCR bias from non-primer-mismatch sources) in microbiota surveys. We use experimental data from mock bacterial communities to validate our approach and hu ...[more]