Evaluation of 16S rRNA Hypervariable Regions for Bioweapon Species Detection by Massively Parallel Sequencing

Figure 2

Percentage distribution of the reads mapped to 16S rRNA gene hypervariable regions (V1V2), (V4V5), and (V6V7V8) from a mock community containing 20 bacterial gDNA sequenced in Illumina MiSeq platform. Percentage of reads mapped to the respective bacterial 16S rRNA gene reference (similarity value = 0.95).