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Nature Methods 6, 636 - 637 (2009)
doi:10.1038/nmeth0909-636

The 'rare biosphere': a reality check

Jens Reeder1 & Rob Knight1

  1. Jens Reeder and Rob Knight are in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA.
    e-mail: rob.knight@colorado.edu


Methods for error correction and classification of metagenomic datasets suggest that the rare biosphere is not as large as previously assumed.

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