A new method for decontamination of <i>de novo</i> transcriptomes using a hierarchical clustering algorithm
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Motivation: The identification of contaminating sequences in a de novo assembly is challenging because of the absence of information on the target species. For sample types where the target organism is impossible to isolate from its matrix, such as endoparasites, endosymbionts and soil-harvested samples, contamination is unavoidable. A few post-assembly decontamination methods are currently available but are based only on alignments to databases, which can lead to poor decontamination. Results: We present a new decontamination method based on a hierarchical clustering algorithm called MCSC. This method uses frequent patterns found in sequences to create clusters. These clusters are then linked to the target species or tagged as contaminants using classic alignment tools. The main advantage of this decontamination method is that it allows sequences to be tagged correctly even if they are unknown or misaligned to a database. Availability and Implementation: Scripts and documentation about the MCSC decontamination method are available at https://github.com/Lafond-LapalmeJ/MCSC_Decontamination . Contact: : benjamin.mimee@agr.gc.ca. Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.004 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".