A comprehensive evaluation of taxonomic classifiers in marine vertebrate eDNA studies
P. E. Bayer, A. Bennett, G. Nester, S. Corrigan, E. J. Raes, A. S. McInnes, M. Cooper, M. E. Ayad, P. McVey, A. Kardailsky, J. Pearce, M. W. Fraser, P. Goncalves, S. Burnell, S. Rauschert
This study evaluates nine taxonomic classifiers for marine vertebrate eDNA studies, finding MMSeqs2 and Metabuli outperform BLAST in accuracy and reducing false positives.
bioRxiv · Feb 15, 2024Ecology