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This includes distinguishing known from novel species. Often the majority of reads cannot be annotated and thus cannot help our interpretation of the sample.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Results: Here, we demonstrate quantitatively how careful assembly of marine metagenomic reads within, but also across, datasets can alleviate this problem. For 10 simulated datasets, each with species complexity modeled on a real counterpart, chimerism remained within the same species for most contigs (97%). For 42 real pyrosequencing (\u2018454\u2019) datasets, assembly increased the proportion of annotated reads, and even more so when datasets were pooled, by on average 1.6% (max 6.6%) for species, 9.0% (max 28.7%) for Pfam protein domains and 9.4% (max 22.9%) for PANTHER gene families. Our results outline exciting prospects for data sharing in the metagenomics community. While chimeric sequences should be avoided in other areas of metagenomics (e.g. biodiversity analyses), conservative pooled assembly is advantageous for annotation specificity and sensitivity. Intriguingly, our experiment also found potential prospects for (low-cost) discovery of new species in \u2018old\u2019 data.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Contact: \u00a0dgerloff@ffame.org<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Supplementary information: \u00a0Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btu546","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2014,10,12]],"date-time":"2014-10-12T00:11:34Z","timestamp":1413072694000},"page":"311-317","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":7,"title":["Pooled assembly of marine metagenomic datasets: enriching annotation through chimerism"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"31","author":[{"given":"Jonathan D.","family":"Magasin","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Department of Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064 and 2 Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution (FfAME), Gainesville, FL 32604, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Dietlind L.","family":"Gerloff","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Department of Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064 and 2 Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution (FfAME), Gainesville, FL 32604, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2014,10,11]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023020116161199100_btu546-B1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1919","DOI":"10.1128\/aem.56.6.1919-1925.1990","article-title":"Combination of 16S rRNA-targeted oligonucleotide probes with flow cytometry for analyzing mixed microbial populations","volume":"56","author":"Amann","year":"1990","journal-title":"Appl. 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