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CORRECTION article

Front. Microbiol., 18 March 2022
Sec. Evolutionary and Genomic Microbiology
Volume 13 - 2022 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2022.878696

Corrigendum: Genomic GC-Content Affects the Accuracy of 16S rRNA Gene Sequencing Based Microbial Profiling due to PCR Bias

This article is a correction to:

  1. Genomic GC-Content Affects the Accuracy of 16S rRNA Gene Sequencing Based Microbial Profiling due to PCR Bias

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\nMartin F. Laursen Martin F. Laursen1*Marlene D. DalgaardMarlene D. Dalgaard2Martin I. BahlMartin I. Bahl1
  • 1Division of Diet, Disease Prevention and Toxicology, National Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
  • 2Department of Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark

A Corrigendum on
Genomic GC-Content Affects the Accuracy of 16S rRNA Gene Sequencing Based Microbial Profiling due to PCR Bias

by Laursen, M. F., Dalgaard, M. D., and Bahl, M. I. (2017). Front. Microbiol. 8:1934. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.01934

In the original article, there was a mistake in the legend and image for Figure 2 as published. The legend incorrectly states Log2 ratio and the x-axis label in the image incorrectly states “Log2(Measured/expected relative abundance)”. The corrected legend and image for Figure 2 appears below.

FIGURE 2
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Figure 2. Accuracy of the abundance estimates across all five sequencing runs for each bacterial species, expressed as the Log10 ratio of measured relative abundance to the expected relative abundance. Boxplot show the median with 25 and 75 percentiles within the box and whiskers show the range. Dashed line indicates the expected relative abundance of 5%.

The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated.

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Keywords: ion torrent PGM, 16S rRNA gene sequencing, reproducibility, accuracy, mock community, genomic GC content

Citation: Laursen MF, Dalgaard MD and Bahl MI (2022) Corrigendum: Genomic GC-Content Affects the Accuracy of 16S rRNA Gene Sequencing Based Microbial Profiling due to PCR Bias. Front. Microbiol. 13:878696. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.878696

Received: 18 February 2022; Accepted: 21 February 2022;
Published: 18 March 2022.

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*Correspondence: Martin F. Laursen, bWZybGEmI3gwMDA0MDtmb29kLmR0dS5kaw==

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