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ArticlePLoS computational biology2025

HAPP: High-accuracy pipeline for processing deep metabarcoding data.

John Sundh, Emma Granqvist, Ela Iwaszkiewicz-Eggebrecht, Lokeshwaran Manoharan, Laura J A van Dijk, Robert Goodsell, Nerivania N Godeiro, Bruno C Bellini, Johanna Orsholm, Piotr Łukasik and 5 more

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Article in PLoS computational biology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6 citing papers in PubMed.

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15 authors.

John SundhDepartment of Biochemistry and Biophysics, National Bioinformatics Infrastructure Sweden, Science for Life Laboratory, Stockholm University, Solna, Sweden.
Emma GranqvistDepartment of Bioinformatics and Genetics, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-1513-1674
Ela Iwaszkiewicz-EggebrechtDepartment of Bioinformatics and Genetics, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0003-1412-1711
Lokeshwaran ManoharanDepartment of Laboratory Medicine, National Bioinformatics Infrastructure Sweden, Science for Life Laboratory, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0001-9751-5745
Laura J A van DijkDepartment of Bioinformatics and Genetics, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden.
Robert GoodsellDepartment of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Uppsala, Sweden.
Nerivania N GodeiroShanghai Natural History Museum, Shanghai Science & Technology Museum, Shanghai, People's Republic of China.ORCID 0000-0002-1669-6124
Bruno C BelliniDepartment of Botany and Zoology, Biosciences Center, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Brazil.
Johanna OrsholmDepartment of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Uppsala, Sweden.
Piotr ŁukasikInstitute of Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland.
Andreia MiraldoDepartment of Bioinformatics and Genetics, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden.
Tomas RoslinDepartment of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Uppsala, Sweden.
Ayco J M TackDepartment of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.
Anders F AnderssonDepartment of Gene Technology, Science for Life Laboratory, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-3627-6899
Fredrik RonquistDepartment of Bioinformatics and Genetics, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-3929-251X

Funding

National Bioinformatics Infrastructure Sweden (NBIS)SciLifeLab & Wallenberg Data Driven Life Science Program, the Knut and Alice Wallenberg FoundationSwedish Foundation for Strategic Environmental ResearchSwedish Research Council
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Deep metabarcoding offers an efficient and reproducible approach to biodiversity monitoring, but noisy data and incomplete reference databases challenge accurate diversity estimation and taxonomic annotation. Here, we introduce a novel algorithm, NEEAT, for removing spurious operational taxonomic units (OTUs) originating from nuclear-embedded mitochondrial DNA sequences (NUMTs) or sequencing errors. It integrates 'echo' signals across samples with the identification of unusual evolutionary patterns among similar DNA sequences. We also extensively benchmark current tools for chimera removal, taxonomic annotation and OTU clustering of deep metabarcoding data. The best performing tools/parameter settings are integrated into HAPP, a high-accuracy pipeline for processing deep metabarcoding data. Tests using CO1 data from BOLD and large-scale metabarcoding data on insects demonstrate that HAPP significantly outperforms existing methods, while enabling efficient analysis of extensive datasets by parallelizing computations across taxonomic groups.

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DNA Barcoding, TaxonomicAlgorithmsAnimalsBiodiversityComputational BiologyDNA, MitochondrialInsectaSequence Analysis, DNASoftwareDNA, Mitochondrial

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PMCPMC12622834

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