Consensus assessment of the contamination level of publicly available cyanobacterial genomes
Luc Cornet, Loïc Meunier, Mick Van Vlierberghe, Raphaël R. Léonard, Benoit Durieu, Yannick J. Lara, Agnieszka Misztak, Damien Sirjacobs, Emmanuelle Javaux, Hervé Philippe, Annick Wilmotte, Denis Baurain
The paper assesses contamination levels in 440 cyanobacterial genomes using a consensus of six methods, finding over 5% are highly contaminated.
PLoS ONE · Jul 25, 2018Peer-reviewedGenomics