Assessing taxonomic metagenome profilers with OPAL

Abstract The explosive growth in taxonomic metagenome profiling methods over the past years has created a need for systematic comparisons using relevant performance criteria. The Open-community Profiling Assessment tooL (OPAL) implements commonly used performance metrics, including those of the firs...

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Main Authors: Fernando Meyer, Andreas Bremges, Peter Belmann, Stefan Janssen, Alice C. McHardy, David Koslicki
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-03-01
Series:Genome Biology
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13059-019-1646-y