2023 journal article

Trimming and Decontamination of Metagenomic Data can Significantly Impact Assembly and Binning Metrics, Phylogenomic and Functional Analysis

CURRENT BIOINFORMATICS, 18(5), 428–439.

By: J. Whitham n & A. Grunden n

author keywords: Trimming; decontamination; binning; assembly; metagenomics; MAG; QC; accessibility
Source: Web Of Science
Added: August 28, 2023

Background: Investigators using metagenomic sequencing to study microbiomes often trim and decontaminate reads without knowing their effect on downstream analyses.