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Silas Metz

Institute for Transfusion Medicine, University Hospital Ulm, 89081 Ulm, GermanyORCID 0009-0003-1337-2997Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprintNov 6, 2026

Residual barcode-like sequences and barcode-associated artifacts after Dorado and Barbell preprocessing of metagenomic reads

Timo Dinse, Vincent Robin Englaender, Silas Metz…·David Alexander Christian Messerer

The paper evaluates Dorado and Barbell preprocessing tools for metagenomic reads, finding Barbell reduces barcode-like sequences more effectively while retaining most reads.

DOI 10.64898/2026.11.05.764534

metagenomicsdeep learning

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