Controlling for contaminants in low biomass 16S rRNA gene sequencing experiments
Lisa Karstens, Mark J. Asquith, Sean Davin, Damien A. Fair, William Thomas Gregory, Alan J. Wolfe, Jonathan G. Braun, Shannon K. McWeeney
This study evaluates two computational methods for removing contaminants in low biomass 16S rRNA gene sequencing, finding that Decontam consistently outperforms SourceTracker in contaminant removal.
mSystems · Jun 3, 2019Peer-reviewedBioinformatics