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Corresponding BibTeX entries:

  @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/},
  }

  @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},
  }

  @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},
  }