Full-length 16S rRNA gene amplicon analysis of human gut microbiota using MinION™ nanopore sequencing confers species-level resolution.
Yoshiyuki MatsuoShinnosuke KomiyaYoshiaki YasumizuYuki YasuokaKatsura MizushimaTomohisa TakagiKirill KryukovAisaku FukudaYoshiharu MorimotoYuji NaitoHidetaka OkadaHidemasa BonoSo NakagawaKiichi HirotaPublished in: BMC microbiology (2021)
Our present microbiome study, comparing the discriminatory power of full-length and short-read sequencing, clearly illustrated the analytical advantage of sequencing the full-length 16S rRNA gene.