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David M Goad

Seeding Inc, doing business as Tiny Health, Austin, Texas, USA;ORCID 0000-0001-8658-6660Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Research Focus:benchmarking· 2 Organism:human· 2 Assay:metagenomics· 2 Approach:benchmark study· 1 Approach:statistical model· 1

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Cheryl Sew Hoy· 2 shared Hannah SturgeoniD· 2 shared Julian M TrachseliD· 2 shared Ruben A. T. MarsiD· 2 shared Kimberley V Sukhum· 1 shared Kimberley V. SukhumiD· 1 shared Timothy J StraubiD· 1 shared

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MicrobiologybioRxivPreprintNov 5, 2026

High reproducibility demonstrated in a direct-to-consumer microbiome testing workflow under real-world conditions using fecal reference material

Julian M Trachsel, Hannah Sturgeon, David M Goad…·Kimberley V Sukhum

This study demonstrates high reproducibility in a DTC microbiome testing workflow using NIST fecal reference material across multiple processing steps and real-world conditions.

DOI 10.64898/2026.11.04.764294

humanmetagenomics

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MicrobiologybioRxivPreprintAug 29, 2026

Robust taxonomic classification in gut and vaginal microbiomes demonstrated through benchmarking with age-specific synthetic communities

Julian Trachsel, Hannah Sturgeon, David M. Goad…·Kimberley V. Sukhum

The paper benchmarks metagenomic pipelines using age- and body site-specific synthetic communities, showing THMCv2 has higher recall and F1 scores while MetaPhlAn4 has higher precision.

DOI 10.64898/2026.07.06.736764

humanmetagenomics

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