Measuring and mitigating PCR bias in microbiota datasets

• Justin D. Silverman,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations College of Information Science and Technology, Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Institute for Computational and Data Science, Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3063-2098

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• Rachael J. Bloom,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Center for Genomics and Computational Biology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, University Program for Genetics and Genomics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8396-2939

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• Sharon Jiang,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Center for Genomics and Computational Biology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Heather K. Durand,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Center for Genomics and Computational Biology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4059-8484

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• Eric Dallow,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliations Center for Genomics and Computational Biology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Sayan Mukherjee,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Departments of Statistical Science, Mathematics, Computer Science, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6715-3920

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• Lawrence A. David

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: lawrence.david@duke.edu

  Affiliations Center for Genomics and Computational Biology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

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