An estimate of the sequencing error frequency in the DNA sequence databases

1 January 1992

journal article
research article
Published by Taylor & Francis in DNA Sequence

Vol. 2 (6) , 343-346
https://doi.org/10.3109/10425179209020815

Abstract

We have examined vector sequences fortuitously present in the EMBL sequence database as contaminating parts of submitted sequences, and found a sequencing error frequency of 3.55% in this subset of release 27 of the database. We discuss the possibility that this value may be representative for corresponding errors in the database as a whole.

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