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Fast, accurate error-correction of amplicon pyrosequences using Acacia

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Figure 1: Benchmarking sensitivity and specificity of Acacia.

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L.B. was supported by a PhD scholarship funded by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation Transformational Biology capability platform. G.W.T. was supported by a Queen Elizabeth II Fellowship from the Australian Research Council, grant DP1093175. Work was also supported by strategic University of Queensland funding of the Australian Centre for Ecogenomics.

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  1. Advanced Water Management Centre, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Queensland, Australia

    Lauren Bragg, Michael Imelfort & Gene W Tyson

  2. Australian Centre for Ecogenomics, School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Queensland, Australia

    Lauren Bragg, Michael Imelfort, Philip Hugenholtz & Gene W Tyson

  3. Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation Mathematics, Informatics and Statistics, Queensland, Australia

    Lauren Bragg

  4. School of Computing and Mathematics, University of Western Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

    Glenn Stone

  5. Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Queensland, Australia

    Philip Hugenholtz

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Bragg, L., Stone, G., Imelfort, M. et al. Fast, accurate error-correction of amplicon pyrosequences using Acacia. Nat Methods 9, 425–426 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.1990

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