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Irja Saar

University of TartuORCID 0000-0001-8453-9721Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Research Focus:benchmarking· 2 Approach:benchmark study· 1 Research Focus:database / resource· 1 Approach:experimental assay· 1 Organism:fungi (other)· 1 Assay:long-read sequencing· 1 Assay:metagenomics· 1 Research Focus:variant calling· 1

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Leho TedersooiD· 2 shared Vladimir S. MikryukoviD· 2 shared Benjamin DuboisiD· 1 shared Kadri RunneliD· 1 shared Kessy AbarenkoviD· 1 shared Marko ProusiD· 1 shared Meirong CheniD· 1 shared Ovidiu CopoțiD· 1 shared

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BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprintMay 21, 2026

Benchmarking full-length ITS metabarcoding across Illumina 2x500, PacBio, and Oxford Nanopore sequencing using mock and soil communities

Leho Tedersoo, Marko Prous, Meirong Chen…·Vladimir S. Mikryukov

The paper benchmarks full-length ITS metabarcoding across Illumina, PacBio, and Oxford Nanopore platforms using mock and soil communities, finding PacBio has the lowest error rate and recommends standard pipelines for biodiversity assessments.

DOI 10.64898/2026.05.20.726443

metagenomicsbenchmark study

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Molecular BiologyMolecular Ecology ResourcesPeer-reviewedJun 6, 2022

DNA barcoding of fungal specimens using long-read high-throughput sequencing

Kadri Runnel, Kessy Abarenkov, Ovidiu Copoț…·Leho Tedersoo

This study compares PacBio long-read HTS and Sanger sequencing for fungal DNA barcoding, finding PacBio more efficient and cost-effective for species identification and allele polymorphism detection.

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fungi (other)long-read sequencing

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