mSystems 1(1):e00010-15. doi:10.1128/mSystems.00010-15.

John H. Chase, Evan Bolyen, Jai Ram Rideout, J. Gregory Caporaso

cual-id: Globally Unique, Correctable, and Human-Friendly Sample Identifiers for Comparative Omics Studies

Creates a group of UUIDs where the last characters are guaranteed to be unique within a given edit distance, so that they can represent the UUIDs in small labels or written notes.