Simulation of 69 microbial communities indicates sequencing depth and false positives are major drivers of bias in prokaryotic metagenome-assembled genome recovery

• Ulisses Rocha ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ulisses.rocha@ufz.de (UR); joao.saraiva@ufz.de (JPS)

  ¶‡ These authors share first authorship on this work.

  Affiliation Department of Applied Microbial Ecology, Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research-UFZ, Leipzig, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6972-6692

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• Jonas Coelho Kasmanas ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Validation

  ¶‡ These authors share first authorship on this work.

  Affiliation Department of Applied Microbial Ecology, Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research-UFZ, Leipzig, Germany

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• Rodolfo Toscan,

  Roles Data curation, Resources

  Affiliation Department of Applied Microbial Ecology, Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research-UFZ, Leipzig, Germany

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• Danilo S. Sanches,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Computer Science, Federal University of Technology—Paraná, UTFPR, Cornélio Procópio, Brazil

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• Stefania Magnusdottir,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Applied Microbial Ecology, Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research-UFZ, Leipzig, Germany

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• Joao Pedro Saraiva

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: ulisses.rocha@ufz.de (UR); joao.saraiva@ufz.de (JPS)

  Affiliation Department of Applied Microbial Ecology, Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research-UFZ, Leipzig, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8251-1960

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