Towards a highly efficient diversity census of the prokaryotic biosphere: a group testing approach
Bar Shalem, Amnon Amir, Ely Porat, Noam Shental
The paper introduces a group testing approach for efficiently census prokaryotic diversity by pooling specimens and using 16S rRNA sequencing to detect species with high accuracy and reduced resource use.
bioRxiv · Jul 23, 2017 · PreprintMicrobiology