Authors and Citation

Authors

• Sarah Westcott. Author.

• Pat Schloss. Copyright holder, maintainer.

• Torbjorn Rognes. Copyright holder.

• Frederic Mahe. Copyright holder.

• Tomas Flouri. Copyright holder.

• Christopher Quince. Copyright holder.

• Ben Nichols. Copyright holder.

Citation

Sarah Westcott (2026). rchime: Detect and Remove Chimeras from Amplicon Sequence Data. R package version 0.1.0.

@Manual{,
  title = {rchime: Detect and Remove Chimeras from Amplicon Sequence Data},
  author = {Sarah Westcott},
  year = {2026},
  note = {R package version 0.1.0},
  url = {https://mothur.org/rchime/},
}

Rognes, T., Flouri, T., Nichols, B., Quince, C., & Mahé, F. (2016). VSEARCH: a versatile open source tool for metagenomics. PeerJ, 4, e2584. doi: 10.7717/peerj.2584

@Article{,
  title = {VSEARCH: a versatile open source tool for metagenomics},
  author = {Torbjørn Rognes and Tomáš Flouri and Ben Nichols and Christopher Quince and Frédéric Mahé},
  journal = {PeerJ},
  year = {2016},
  volume = {4},
  pages = {e2584},
  doi = {10.7717/peerj.2584},
}

Edgar, R. C., Haas, B. J., Clemente, J. C., Quince, C., & Knight, R. (2011). UCHIME improves sensitivity and speed of chimera detection. Bioinformatics, 27(16), 2194-2200. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btr381

@Article{,
  title = {UCHIME improves sensitivity and speed of chimera detection},
  author = {Robert C. Edgar and Brian J. Haas and Jose C. Clemente and Christopher Quince and Rob Knight},
  journal = {Bioinformatics},
  year = {2011},
  volume = {27},
  number = {16},
  pages = {2194--2200},
  doi = {10.1093/bioinformatics/btr381},
}