Terminating contamination: large-scale search identifies more than 2,000,000 contaminated entries in GenBank
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DOI: 10.1186/s13059-020-02023-1
Abstract: 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.… read more here.
Keywords: large scale; terminating contamination; contamination; contamination large ... See more keywords