Revisiting phage-host inference from metagenome-assembled genomes reveals the need for scaffold-level validation
Ling Yuan, Karthik Anantharaman, Bin Ma, Antonio Perdo Camargo, L. J. Chen
The paper shows that phage-host predictions from MAGs are unreliable due to scaffold-level errors and proposes a validation framework to improve accuracy.
bioRxiv · Apr 23, 2026 · PreprintMicrobiology