International interlaboratory study comparing single organism 16S rRNA gene sequencing data: Beyond consensus sequence comparisons

Highlights • Sequencing results were in agreement for biologically conserved positions.• For biologically variable positions, sequencing depth impacted precision.• Results were biased by the algorithm used to align reads to the reference.

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