Nature Communications (Oct 2022)

Strain level microbial detection and quantification with applications to single cell metagenomics

  • Kaiyuan Zhu,
  • Alejandro A. Schäffer,
  • Welles Robinson,
  • Junyan Xu,
  • Eytan Ruppin,
  • A. Funda Ergun,
  • Yuzhen Ye,
  • S. Cenk Sahinalp

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33869-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 19

Abstract

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Here the authors develop CAMMiQ, a combinatorial optimization approach that utilizes variable length, “unique” and “doubly-unique” genomic segments, showing improves identification and quantification of distinct microbes in metagenomic sequence data.