Author

Alastair Grant

University of East AngliaORCID 0000-0002-1147-2375Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Research Focus:benchmarking· 1 Research Focus:database / resource· 1 Research Focus:deconvolution· 1 Research Focus:differential expression· 1 Assay:metagenomics· 1 Approach:statistical model· 1

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Charli S. DaviesiD· 1 shared

Activity by Year

2026-2026 · peak 1/yr

1 paper

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BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprintJul 22, 2026

Contamination of widely used databases compromises rRNA based taxonomic assignment of metagenomes and metatranscriptomes

Alastair Grant, Charli S. Davies

The paper shows that contamination of rRNA databases with LSU sequences leads to incorrect taxonomic assignments in metagenomes and metatranscriptomes, and provides a cleaned database and tool to address this issue.

DOI 10.64898/2026.07.22.739903

metagenomicsstatistical model

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