Better data, better trees: GenBank-GISAID deduplication and source-specific artifact masking in viral genomics
Laise Eduarda Paixão de Moraes, Andrêza Alencar, Marius Brusselmans, Darlan da Silva Cândido, Nuno Rodrigues Faria, Simon Dellicour, Philippe Lemey, Ricardo Khouri
The paper presents tools to harmonize viral genomic data across repositories and mask lab-specific artifacts, improving phylogenetic analysis accuracy.
bioRxiv · Jun 16, 2026 · PreprintBioinformatics