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Best 16S Region ?

Does someone have an idea of the best 16S gene region to amplify with NGS in order to assess microbial (bacterial) diversity in environmental samples ? cheers

metagenomics

2 answers

You can use information from The Ribosomal Database Project (RDP):[?] http://rdp.cme.msu.edu/ [?] or Silva database[?] http://www.arb-silva.de/ [?]

Ilia

Our colleagues use one 16S amplicon across the V3-V5 region.

and some other use the V6 one...

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