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Assessing DNA barcoding as a tool for species identification and data quality control.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2013
Shen Yong-Yi, Chen Xiao, Murphy Robert W
Abstract excerpt
In recent years, the number of sequences of diverse species submitted to GenBank has grown explosively and not infrequently the data contain errors. This problem is extensively recognized but not for invalid or incorrectly identified species, sample mixed-up, and contamination. DNA barcoding is a powerful tool for identifying and confirming species and one very important application involves forensics. In this...
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