  We investigate measurement-based quantum communication with noisy resource
states that are generated by entanglement purification. We consider the
transmission of encoded information via noisy quantum channels using a
measurement-based implementation of encoding, error correction and decoding. We
show that such an approach offers advantages over direct transmission,
gate-based error correction and measurement-based schemes with direct
generation of resource states. We analyze the noise structure of resource
states generated by entanglement purification and show that a local error
model, i.e. noise acting independently on all qubits of the resource state, is
a good approximation in general, and provides an exact description for
$GHZ$-states. The latter are resources for a measurement-based implementation
of error correction codes for bit-flip or phase flip errors. This provides a
first link between the recently found very high thresholds for fault-tolerant
measurement-based quantum information processing based on local error models
for resource states, to error thresholds for gate based computational models.
