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Identifying and Overcoming Threats to Reproducibility, Replicability, Robustness, and Generalizability in Microbiome Research

Patrick D. Schloss
Jacques Ravel, Editor
Patrick D. Schloss
aDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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DOI: 10.1128/mBio.00525-18
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https://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.00525-18
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  • Published online June 5, 2018.

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  1. aDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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  • Citation Schloss PD. 2018. Identifying and overcoming threats to reproducibility, replicability, robustness, and generalizability in microbiome research. mBio 9:e00525-18. https://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.00525-18.

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