UCHIME improves sensitivity and speed of chimera detection

Edgar et al. (Thu,) studied this question.

www.synapsesocial.com/papers/69d6c7e1fca0359822aa8724 — DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btr381

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