DOI: 10.1128/mra.01048-26 ISSN: 2576-098X

rchime: an R package for detecting chimeras in amplicon sequencing data

Sarah L. Westcott, Patrick D. Schloss

ABSTRACT

A longstanding challenge in analyzing amplicon sequencing data is the presence of chimeras, which are PCR products that are formed by two or more templates. rchime is an R package that implements the UCHIME algorithm, which efficiently screens amplicon sequence collections for chimeras.

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