Home About Contact     
 

Errors and biases in amplicon sequencing

OTU accuracy
Spurious OTUs are common in mock and real samples
Tolstoy's paradox -- bad sequences are common even with very low sequence error rates
Abundance bias -- read count has low correlation with species abundance
Cross-talk -- many reads are assigned to the wrong sample

1sco
Search the AlphaFold DB online in seconds >