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Species-level resolution of 16S rRNA gene amplicons sequenced through the MinION™ portable nanopore sequencer

Overview of attention for article published in Giga Science, January 2016
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Title
Species-level resolution of 16S rRNA gene amplicons sequenced through the MinION™ portable nanopore sequencer
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Giga Science, January 2016
DOI 10.1186/s13742-016-0111-z
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Alfonso Benítez-Páez, Kevin J. Portune, Yolanda Sanz

Abstract

The miniaturised and portable DNA sequencer MinION™ has been released to the scientific community within the framework of an early access programme to evaluate its application for a wide variety of genetic approaches. This technology has demonstrated great potential, especially in genome-wide analyses. In this study, we tested the ability of the MinION™ system to perform amplicon sequencing in order to design new approaches to study microbial diversity using nearly full-length 16S rDNA sequences. Using R7.3 chemistry, we generated more than 3.8 million events (nt) during a single sequencing run. These data were sufficient to reconstruct more than 90 % of the 16S rRNA gene sequences for 20 different species present in a mock reference community. After read mapping and 16S rRNA gene assembly, consensus sequences and 2d reads were recovered to assign taxonomic classification down to the species level. Additionally, we were able to measure the relative abundance of all the species present in a mock community and detected a biased species distribution originating from the PCR reaction using 'universal' primers. Although nanopore-based sequencing produces reads with lower per-base accuracy compared with other platforms, the MinION™ DNA sequencer is valuable for both high taxonomic resolution and microbial diversity analysis. Improvements in nanopore chemistry, such as minimising base-calling errors and the nucleotide bias reported here for 16S amplicon sequencing, will further deliver more reliable information that is useful for the specific detection of microbial species and strains in complex ecosystems.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 6 1%
United Kingdom 3 <1%
Australia 2 <1%
Norway 1 <1%
Italy 1 <1%
Sweden 1 <1%
Switzerland 1 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
Czechia 1 <1%
Other 6 1%
Unknown 481 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 129 26%
Student > Ph. D. Student 93 18%
Student > Master 59 12%
Student > Bachelor 35 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 20 4%
Other 84 17%
Unknown 84 17%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 171 34%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 119 24%
Environmental Science 24 5%
Medicine and Dentistry 21 4%
Computer Science 18 4%
Other 57 11%
Unknown 94 19%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 33. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 06 October 2023.
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