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Kristen M. Westfall

Fisheries and Oceans CanadaORCID 0000-0001-7524-7145Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Research Focus:benchmarking· 2 Assay:metagenomics· 2 Organism:C. elegans· 1 Research Focus:database / resource· 1 Approach:experimental assay· 1 Research Focus:variant calling· 1

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Cathryn L. AbbottiD· 2 shared Gregory A. C. SingeriD· 1 shared Mehrdad HajibabaeiiD· 1 shared Muneesh Kaushal· 1 shared Nicole A. Fahner· 1 shared Scott R. GilmoreiD· 1 shared Thomas W. TherriaultiD· 1 shared

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GeneticsMetabarcoding and MetagenomicsPeer-reviewedNov 19, 2024

NAMERS: a purpose-built reference DNA sequence database to support applied eDNA metabarcoding

Kristen M. Westfall, Gregory A. C. Singer, Muneesh Kaushal…·Cathryn L. Abbott

NAMERS provides a curated DNA sequence database to improve eDNA metabarcoding workflows by offering high-quality reference sequences for freshwater fish in British Columbia.

9 citations

metagenomicsdatabase / resource

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Molecular BiologyEnvironmental DNAPeer-reviewedNov 24, 2021

Targeted Next Generation Sequencing of environmental DNA improves detection and quantification of invasive European green crab (Carcinus maenas)

Kristen M. Westfall, Thomas W. Therriault, Cathryn L. Abbott

This study introduces and validates a targeted next generation sequencing (tNGS) method for eDNA analysis, showing improved detection and quantification of invasive European green crab compared to qPCR.

12 citations

C. elegansmetagenomics

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