ConFindr: rapid detection of intraspecies and cross-species contamination in bacterial whole-genome sequence data
Whole-genome sequencing (WGS) of bacterial pathogens is currently widely used to support public-health investigations. The ability to assess WGS data quality is critical to underpin the reliability of downstream analyses. Sequence contamination is a quality issue that could potentially impact WGS-ba...
Main Authors: | Andrew J. Low, Adam G. Koziol, Paul A. Manninger, Burton Blais, Catherine D. Carrillo |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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PeerJ Inc.
2019-05-01
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Series: | PeerJ |
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Online Access: | https://peerj.com/articles/6995.pdf |
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