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. 2019 Mar 23;19:105–112. doi: 10.1016/j.jare.2019.03.006

Fig. 1.

Fig. 1

Overview of recommendations for improved sequence-based microbiome analysis. Important technical components of typical laboratory and bioinformatic microbiome analysis projects (black boxes) and the bioinformatic resources that are generated in these projects (green columns) are shown, together with specific recommendations to expand and improve existing protocols (in red). Abbreviations: qPCR, quantitative real-time PCR; OTUs, operational taxonomic units; ASVs, amplicon sequence variants.