To denoise or to cluster, that is not the question: optimizing pipelines for COI metabarcoding and metaphylogeography

Abstract Background The recent blooming of metabarcoding applications to biodiversity studies comes with some relevant methodological debates. One such issue concerns the treatment of reads by denoising or by clustering methods, which have been wrongly presented as alternatives. It has also been sug...

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Main Authors: Adrià Antich, Creu Palacin, Owen S. Wangensteen, Xavier Turon
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2021-04-01
Series:BMC Bioinformatics
Subjects:
COI
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12859-021-04115-6