Nature Communications (Oct 2019)

Species abundance information improves sequence taxonomy classification accuracy

  • Benjamin D. Kaehler,
  • Nicholas A. Bokulich,
  • Daniel McDonald,
  • Rob Knight,
  • J. Gregory Caporaso,
  • Gavin A. Huttley

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12669-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Taxonomy classification of amplicon sequences is an important step in investigating microbial communities in microbiome analysis. Here, the authors show incorporating environment-specific taxonomic abundance information can lead to improved species-level classification accuracy across common sample types.