Is Planktonic Diversity Well Recorded in Sedimentary DNA? Toward the Reconstruction of Past Protistan Diversity

Basic local alignment search tool

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CLUSTAL W: improving the sensitivity of progressive multiple sequence alignment through sequence weighting, position-specific gap penalties and weight matrix choice

Julie Thompson, Desmond G. Higgins, Toby J. Gibson · Nucleic Acids Research · 1994 · 64.9K citations · Full text

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Search and clustering orders of magnitude faster than BLAST

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FastTree 2 – Approximately Maximum-Likelihood Trees for Large Alignments

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UCHIME improves sensitivity and speed of chimera detection

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