| Title |
jMOTU and Taxonerator: Turning DNA Barcode Sequences into Annotated Operational Taxonomic Units
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|---|---|
| Published in |
PLOS ONE, April 2011
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0019259 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Martin Jones, Anisah Ghoorah, Mark Blaxter |
| Abstract |
DNA barcoding and other DNA sequence-based techniques for investigating and estimating biodiversity require explicit methods for associating individual sequences with taxa, as it is at the taxon level that biodiversity is assessed. For many projects, the bioinformatic analyses required pose problems for laboratories whose prime expertise is not in bioinformatics. User-friendly tools are required for both clustering sequences into molecular operational taxonomic units (MOTU) and for associating these MOTU with known organismal taxonomies. |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 274 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 5 | 2% |
| France | 3 | 1% |
| Germany | 2 | <1% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | <1% |
| Sweden | 1 | <1% |
| Brazil | 1 | <1% |
| Colombia | 1 | <1% |
| Mexico | 1 | <1% |
| Canada | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 2 | <1% |
| Unknown | 255 | 93% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 64 | 23% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 54 | 20% |
| Student > Master | 48 | 18% |
| Student > Bachelor | 23 | 8% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 13 | 5% |
| Other | 51 | 19% |
| Unknown | 21 | 8% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 170 | 62% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 29 | 11% |
| Environmental Science | 23 | 8% |
| Computer Science | 10 | 4% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 3 | 1% |
| Other | 9 | 3% |
| Unknown | 30 | 11% |