Linked machine learning classifiers improve species classification of fungi when using error-prone long-reads on extended metabarcodes
Tavish Eenjes, Yiheng Hu, László Irinyi, Minh Thuy Vi Hoang, Leon M. A. Smith, Celeste C. Linde, Andrew Milgate, Wieland Meyer, Eric A. Stone, John Paul Rathjen, Benjamin S. Mashford, Benjamin Schwessinger
This paper demonstrates that linked machine learning classifiers improve species classification of fungi using error-prone long-reads on extended metabarcodes, achieving high recall and low false positives.
bioRxiv · May 1, 2021 · PreprintBioinformatics