Simple statistical identification and removal of contaminant sequences in marker-gene and metagenomics data

Nicole M. Davis; Diana M. Proctor; Susan P. Holmes; David A. Relman; Benjamin J. Callahan

doi:10.1101/221499

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Simple statistical identification and removal of contaminant sequences in marker-gene and metagenomics data

Nicole M. Davis, Diana M. Proctor, View ORCID ProfileSusan P. Holmes, David A. Relman, View ORCID ProfileBenjamin J. Callahan

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Nicole M. Davis

1Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA

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Diana M. Proctor

2Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA

3Department of Orofacial Sciences, University of California, San Francisco School of Dentistry, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA

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Susan P. Holmes

4Department of Statistics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA

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David A. Relman

1Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA

2Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA

5Infectious Diseases Section, Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA

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Benjamin J. Callahan

6Department of Population Health and Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27607, USA

7Bioinformatics Research Center, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA

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Simple statistical identification and removal of contaminant sequences in marker-gene and metagenomics data

Nicole M. Davis, Diana M. Proctor, Susan P. Holmes, David A. Relman, Benjamin J. Callahan

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Simple statistical identification and removal of contaminant sequences in marker-gene and metagenomics data

Nicole M. Davis, Diana M. Proctor, Susan P. Holmes, David A. Relman, Benjamin J. Callahan

bioRxiv 221499; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/221499

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