The human “contaminome”: bacterial, viral, and computational contamination in whole genome sequences from 1000 families

Abstract The unmapped readspace of whole genome sequencing data tends to be large but is often ignored. We posit that it contains valuable signals of both human infection and contamination. Using unmapped and poorly aligned reads from whole genome sequences (WGS) of over 1000 families and nearly 500...

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Main Authors: Brianna Chrisman, Chloe He, Jae-Yoon Jung, Nate Stockham, Kelley Paskov, Peter Washington, Dennis P. Wall
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-06-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-13269-z