MicrobiologybioRxivPreprint
Revisiting phage-host inference from metagenome-assembled genomes reveals the need for scaffold-level validation
Ling Yuan, Karthik Anantharaman, Bin Ma…·L. J. Chen
The paper shows that phage-host predictions from MAGs are unreliable due to scaffold-level errors and proposes a validation framework to improve accuracy.
DOI 10.64898/2026.04.22.720271