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We constructed error-correcting DNA barcodes that allow one run of a massively parallel pyrosequencer to process up to 1,544 samples simultaneously. Using these barcodes we processed bacterial 16S rRNA gene sequences representing microbial communities in 286 environmental samples, corrected 92% of sample assignment errors, and thus characterized nearly as many 16S rRNA genes as have been sequenced to date by Sanger sequencing.
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We thank N. Pace, L. Gold and F. Accurso for support and encouragement, J.I. Gordon and R. Bushman for helpful discussions, and R. Ley, C. Lozupone and D. McDonald for feedback on the manuscript. This work was supported in part by the US National Institutes of Health–University of Colorado at Boulder Molecular Biophysics Training Program (T32GM065103), and grants from the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and National Institutes of Health (U01 HL081335-01, P01DK078669).
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M.H. and R.K. designed and implemented the analyses, and wrote the manuscript. J.J.W., J.K.H. and N.J.G. generated the 454 dataset.
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Hamady, M., Walker, J., Harris, J. et al. Error-correcting barcoded primers for pyrosequencing hundreds of samples in multiplex. Nat Methods 5, 235–237 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.1184
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