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For a given sample of organisms, a randomly selected collection of DNA fragments is sequenced. The resulting reads are then compared with one or more reference databases using an appropriate sequence comparison program such as BLAST (Altschul et al. 1990). The resulting data are processed by MEGAN to produce an interactive analysis of the taxonomical content of the sample.
