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Terminating contamination: large-scale search identifies more than 2,000,000 contaminated entries in GenBank

Genomic analyses are sensitive to contamination in public databases caused by incorrectly labeled reference sequences. Here, we describe Conterminator, an efficient method to detect and remove incorrectly labeled sequences by an exhaustive all-against-all sequence comparison. Our analysis reports co...

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Autores principales: Steinegger, Martin, Salzberg, Steven L.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7218494/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32398145
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13059-020-02023-1