Symbiont-Screener: a reference-free filter to automatically separate host sequences and contaminants for long reads or co-barcoded reads by unsupervised clustering
Mengyang Xu, Lidong Guo, Chengcheng Shi, Xiaochuan Liu, Jianwei Chen, Xin Liu, Guangyi Fan
Symbiont-Screener separates host sequences from contaminants in long reads or co-barcoded reads using unsupervised clustering without reference alignment, achieving high accuracy in simulated and real data.
bioRxiv · Oct 26, 2020 · PreprintBioinformatics