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V-Xtractor: An open-source, high-throughput software tool to identify and extract hypervariable regions of small subunit (16S/18S) ribosomal RNA gene sequences

Martin Hartmann, Charles G Howes, Kessy Abarenkov, William W Mohn, and R Henrik Nilsson

J Microbiol Methods 83(2):4 (2010) PMID 20804791

V-Xtractor (http://www.cmde.science.ubc.ca/mohn/software.html) uses Hidden Markov Models to locate, verify, and extract defined hypervariable sequence segments (V1-V9) from bacterial, archaeal, and fungal small-subunit rRNA sequences. With a detection efficiency of 99.6% and low susceptibility to false-positives, this tool refines data reliability and facilitates subsequent analysis in community assays.

Copyright © 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

DOI: 10.1016/j.mimet.2010.08.008
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