Sarah L. Westcott

Introducing mothur: Open-Source, Platform-Independent, Community-Supported Software for Describing and Comparing Microbial Communities

Patrick D. Schloss, Sarah L. Westcott, Thomas Ryabin et al. · Applied and Environmental Microbiology · 2009 · 21.8K citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Bioinformatics, Microbiology +17

Development of a Dual-Index Sequencing Strategy and Curation Pipeline for Analyzing Amplicon Sequence Data on the MiSeq Illumina Sequencing Platform

James J. Kozich, Sarah L. Westcott, Nielson T. Baxter et al. · Applied and Environmental Microbiology · 2013 · 7.5K citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Ecology, Microbiology +15

Reducing the Effects of PCR Amplification and Sequencing Artifacts on 16S rRNA-Based Studies

Patrick D. Schloss, Dirk Gevers, Sarah L. Westcott · PLoS ONE · 2011 · 2.1K citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Microbiology, Microbial Ecology +13

Assessing and Improving Methods Used in Operational Taxonomic Unit-Based Approaches for 16S rRNA Gene Sequence Analysis

Patrick D. Schloss, Sarah L. Westcott · Applied and Environmental Microbiology · 2011 · 757 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Biology, Microbiology +16

The Molecular Basis of FHA Domain:Phosphopeptide Binding Specificity and Implications for Phospho-Dependent Signaling Mechanisms

Daniel Durocher, Ian A. Taylor, Dilara Sarbassova et al. · Molecular Cell · 2000 · 461 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology +16