Title: CRABS – A software program to generate curated reference databases for metabarcoding sequencing data
Running title: Creating reference databases for amplicon-based sequencing
Gert-Jan Jeunen1, Eddy Dowle1, Jonika Edgecombe1, Ulla von Ammon2, Neil J. Gemmell1, Hugh Cross1,3
1 Department of Anatomy, School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Otago, Dunedin 9016, New Zealand.
2 Coastal and Freshwater Group, Cawthron Institute, 98 Halifax Street East, Nelson 7010, New Zealand.
3National Ecological Observatory Network, 1685 38­th Street, Suite 100, Boulder, CO 80301, USA.
Corresponding author: Dr. Gert-Jan Jeunen
Department of Anatomy
University of Otago
Dunedin 9016
New Zealand
gjeunen@gmail.com