The selection of software and database for metagenomics sequence analysis impacts the outcome of microbial profiling and pathogen detection

• Ruijie Xu,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America, Center for the Ecology of Infectious Diseases, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3364-1587

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• Sreekumari Rajeev ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sreekumari Rajeev, Liliana C. M. Salvador

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical and Diagnostic Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6600-9102

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• Liliana C. M. Salvador

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sreekumari Rajeev, Liliana C. M. Salvador

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

  * E-mail: lilianasalvador@arizona.edu

  Current address: School of Animal & Comparative Biomedical Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

  Affiliations Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America, Center for the Ecology of Infectious Diseases, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America, Department of Infectious Diseases, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8472-1179

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