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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Kaehler BD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6789115 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20191011 1
Popular naive Bayes taxonomic classifiers for amplicon sequences assume that all species in the reference database are equally likely to be observed. We demonstrate that classification accuracy degrades linearly with the degree to which that assumption is violated, and in practice it is always violated. By incorporating environment-specific taxonomic abundance information, we demonstrate a significant increase in the species-level classification accuracy across common sample types. At the specie ...[more]