Discovering the unseen: a performance comparison of taxonomic classification methods under unknown DNA barcodes
Johanna Orsholm, Alessandro Zito, Panu Juhani Somervuo, Jesse P. Harrison, Markus Koskela, Otso Ovaskainen, Mariana P. Braga, Nicolas Chazot, Tomas V. Roslin, Brendan Furneaux
This study compares taxonomic classification methods for DNA barcoding, finding that phylogenetic placement methods excel for arthropod COI barcodes while composition-based classifiers perform better for fungal ITS.
Methods in Ecology and Evolution · Jul 16, 2026Peer-reviewedBioinformatics