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Charli S. Davies

University of East AngliaORCID 0000-0001-9030-7820Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Research Focus:database / resource· 2 Assay:metagenomics· 2 Approach:statistical model· 2 Research Focus:benchmarking· 1 Research Focus:cell type annotation· 1 Research Focus:deconvolution· 1 Approach:deep learning· 1 Research Focus:differential expression· 1

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Alastair GrantiD· 2 shared Abdullah Aleidan· 1 shared Falk HildebrandiD· 1 shared Joachim FritscheriD· 1 shared Mohammad BahramiD· 1 shared Solomon C. Udochi· 1 shared

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BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprintJul 22, 2026

Contamination of widely used databases compromises rRNA based taxonomic assignment of metagenomes and metatranscriptomes

Alastair Grant, Charli S. Davies

The paper shows that contamination of rRNA databases with LSU sequences leads to incorrect taxonomic assignments in metagenomes and metatranscriptomes, and provides a cleaned database and tool to address this issue.

DOI 10.64898/2026.07.22.739903

metagenomicsstatistical model

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MicrobiologyISME CommunicationsPeer-reviewedJan 1, 2025

Improved taxonomic annotation of Archaea communities using LotuS2, the Genome Taxonomy Database and RNAseq data

Alastair Grant, Abdullah Aleidan, Charli S. Davies…·Falk Hildebrand

The paper improves taxonomic annotation of Archaea communities using a new reference database and pipeline, enhancing classification accuracy and coverage.

7 citations

metagenomicsdeep learning

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