Bellerophon program

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Bellerophon is a computer program for detecting chimeric sequences in multiple sequence datasets by an adaptation of partial treeing analysis.{{Cite journal

| last1 = Huber | first1 = T.

| last2 = Faulkner | first2 = G.

| last3 = Hugenholtz | first3 = P.

| doi = 10.1093/bioinformatics/bth226

| title = Bellerophon: A program to detect chimeric sequences in multiple sequence alignments

| journal = Bioinformatics

| volume = 20

| issue = 14

| pages = 2317–2319

| year = 2004

| pmid = 15073015

| pmc =

| doi-access = free

}} Bellerophon was specifically developed to detect 16S rRNA gene chimeras in PCR-clone libraries of environmental samples, but can be applied to other nucleotide sequence alignments.