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Taxonomy based performance metrics for evaluating taxonomic assignment methods

BACKGROUND: Metagenomics experiments often make inferences about microbial communities by sequencing 16S and 18S rRNA, and taxonomic assignment is a fundamental step in such studies. This paper addresses the weaknesses in two types of metrics commonly used by previous studies for measuring the perfo...

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Autores principales: Chen, Chung-Yen, Tang, Sen-Lin, Chou, Seng-Cho T.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6561758/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31185897
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12859-019-2896-0