Microbiota of some coral species living in the Sea of Marmara
The sequence reads were depleted of barcodes and primers first and then, shorter sequence reads shorter than 150bp, ambiguous base call reads and sequence reads with homopolymer runs exceeding 6 bp were discarded. Then sequence reads were de-noised and chimeras removed using UCHIME and the remaining sequences were grouped into Operational Taxonomic Units (OTUs) with a 99% similarly cut-off value.