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CAPRRESI: Chimera Assembly by Plasmid Recovery and Restriction Enzyme Site Insertion
Published on: June 25, 2017
rchime: an R package for detecting chimeras in amplicon sequencing data
Sarah L Westcott1, Patrick D Schloss1
1Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
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Abstract:
A longstanding challenge in analyzing amplicon sequencing data is the presence of chimeras, which are PCR products that are formed by two or more templates. rchime is an R package that implements the UCHIME algorithm, which efficiently screens amplicon sequence collections for chimeras.

