taxonomy database
- Research Article | Ecological and Evolutionary ScienceTaxAss: Leveraging a Custom Freshwater Database Achieves Fine-Scale Taxonomic Resolution
Microbial communities drive ecosystem processes, but microbial community composition analyses using 16S rRNA gene amplicon data sets are limited by the lack of fine-resolution taxonomy classifications. Coarse taxonomic groupings at the phylum, class, and order levels lump ecologically distinct organisms together. To avoid this, many researchers define operational taxonomic units (OTUs) based on clustered sequences, sequence variants, or...