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Abstract

Microbial identification is the key component to microbial community analysis. Since mid-2000s, with the advent of Next-generation sequencing techniques, it has been necessary to use increasingly refined and complete databases to uniquely assign the taxonomy of each sequence or taxonomic unit. In this study we evaluate the relevance of the database curation in this assignation process.

Authors 1

1. Thomas C. A. Hitch corresponding Aachen Institute of Medical Microbiology

   RWTH Aachen University · Universitätsklinikum Aachen

   Affiliation as printed

   Uniklinik Rwth Aachen: Universitatsklinikum Aachen, Institute of Medical Microbiology, Pauwelsstraße, Aachen, Germany