riboFR-seq
A novel approach to linking 16S rRNA amplicon profiles to metagenomes
16S rRNA amplicon analysis and shotgun metagenome sequencing are two main culture-independent strategies to explore the genetic landscape of various microbial communities. Recently, numerous studies have employed these two approaches together, but downstream data analyses were performed separately, which always generated incongruent or conflict signals on both taxonomic and functional classifications. Here we propose a novel approach, RiboFR-Seq (Ribosomal RNA gene Flanking Region Sequencing), for capturing both ribosomal RNA variable regions and their flanking protein-coding genes simultaneously. ...