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by sakai 4454 days ago
16S reads should be fine for basic characterization. The bioinformatics tools for sequence classification of short reads from a full sequencing run have also improved dramatically recently. Especially in terms of speed (100-1000X improvements).

(Plug) I just launched a site last week that demos this and links to a few other academic works in the field (check the FAQ): https://helix.io