Meta16S: large-scale discovery and taxonomic assignment of unknown microbes from 16S amplicon sequencing samples
Fabio Cumbo, Giovanni Felici, Daniel J Blankenberg, Federica Valeriani, Vincenzo Romano Spica, Daniele Santoni
The paper introduces Meta16S, a scalable pipeline for incremental clustering of 16S rRNA data to discover and classify unknown microbes.
bioRxiv · May 20, 2026 · PreprintMicrobiology