title: The cheese smear of a Swiss semi-hard red-smear cheese variety was analyzed for comparison of the microbial surface smear community patterns of cheeses differing in their smear quality.
design: Amplified 16S rDNA amplicons were sequenced using GS FLX Titanium chemistry on a 454 genome sequencer FLX platform (Roche Diagnostics Ltd., Burgess Hill, West Sussex, United Kingdom) according to Roche 454 protocols.