SourceApp: A Novel Metagenomic Source Tracking Tool that can Distinguish between Fecal Microbiomes Using Genome-To-Source Associations Benchmarked Against Mixed Input Spike-In Mesocosms.

Blake G Lindner, Katherine E Graham, Jacob R Phaneuf, Janet K Hatt, Konstantinos T Konstantinidis

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Blake G LindnerSchool of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta 30332, Georgia, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-3899-8075

Katherine E GrahamSchool of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta 30332, Georgia, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-4148-1395

Jacob R PhaneufSchool of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta 30332, Georgia, United States.

Janet K HattSchool of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta 30332, Georgia, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-5666-0994

Konstantinos T KonstantinidisSchool of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta 30332, Georgia, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-0954-4755

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Abstract

Methodologies utilizing metagenomics are attractive to fecal source tracking (FST) aims for assessing the presence and proportions of various fecal inputs simultaneously. Yet, compared to established culture- or PCR-based techniques, metagenomic approaches for these purposes are rarely benchmarked or contextualized for practice. We performed shotgun sequencing experiments (

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FecesMetagenomicsMicrobiotaAnimalsMetagenomebioinformaticscomparative genomicsfecal pollutionforensicsmicrobial source trackingshotgun metagenomics

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PMID40326765

DOI10.1021/acs.est.5c03603

PMCPMC12101495

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