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Editor's Pick Research Article | Ecological and Evolutionary Science

OptiClust, an Improved Method for Assigning Amplicon-Based Sequence Data to Operational Taxonomic Units

Sarah L. Westcott, Patrick D. Schloss
Katherine McMahon, Editor
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DOI: 10.1128/mSphereDirect.00073-17
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DOI 
https://doi.org/10.1128/mSphereDirect.00073-17
PubMed 
28289728

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History 
  • Received February 9, 2017
  • Accepted February 15, 2017
  • Published online March 8, 2017.

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Copyright © 2017 Westcott and Schloss. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.
Editors and / or Reviewers 
  • Katherine McMahon, Editor, University of Wisconsin
  • Mick Watson, External solicited reviewer, Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh
  • Katherine Pollard, External solicited reviewer, Gladstone Institutes

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  1. Sarah L. Westcott and
  2. Patrick D. Schloss
  1. Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
      1. Address correspondence to Patrick D. Schloss, pschloss{at}umich.edu.
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      Sarah L. Westcott, Patrick D. Schloss
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