Quantifying uncertainty of taxonomic placement in DNA barcoding and metabarcoding
Panu Somervuo, Douglas W. Yu, Charles Xu, Yinqiu Ji, Jenni Hultman, Helena Wirta, Otso Ovaskainen
This paper evaluates the probabilistic taxonomic placement method PROTAX across diverse datasets, showing it reliably quantifies species identification uncertainty but highlights challenges in environmental sample analysis.
bioRxiv · Aug 19, 2016Bioinformatics