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decontam

Identify Contaminants in Marker-gene and Metagenomics Sequencing Data


Bioconductor version: Release (3.18)

Simple statistical identification of contaminating sequence features in marker-gene or metagenomics data. Works on any kind of feature derived from environmental sequencing data (e.g. ASVs, OTUs, taxonomic groups, MAGs,...). Requires DNA quantitation data or sequenced negative control samples.

Author: Benjamin Callahan [aut, cre], Nicole Marie Davis [aut], Felix G.M. Ernst [ctb]

Maintainer: Benjamin Callahan <benjamin.j.callahan at gmail.com>

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Installation

To install this package, start R (version "4.3") and enter:


if (!require("BiocManager", quietly = TRUE))
    install.packages("BiocManager")

BiocManager::install("decontam")

For older versions of R, please refer to the appropriate Bioconductor release.

Documentation

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browseVignettes("decontam")
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Reference Manual PDF
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Details

biocViews Classification, ImmunoOncology, Metagenomics, Microbiome, Sequencing, Software
Version 1.22.0
In Bioconductor since BioC 3.7 (R-3.5) (6 years)
License Artistic-2.0
Depends R (>= 3.4.1), methods (>= 3.4.1)
Imports ggplot2 (>= 2.1.0), reshape2 (>= 1.4.1), stats
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URL https://github.com/benjjneb/decontam
Bug Reports https://github.com/benjjneb/decontam/issues
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