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ArticleBriefings in bioinformatics2026

On using clustering statistics for assessing plasmid binning tools accuracy.

Victor Epain, Aniket Mane, Cedric Chauve

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Article in Briefings in bioinformatics, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Victor EpainDepartment of Mathematics, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, V5A 1S6 BC, Canada.ORCID 0000-0003-0049-0954
Aniket ManeDepartment of Mathematics, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, V5A 1S6 BC, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-0130-7149
Cedric ChauveDepartment of Mathematics, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, V5A 1S6 BC, Canada.ORCID 0000-0001-9837-1878

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We discuss the drawbacks of using homogeneity and completeness, statistics defined for the evaluation of clustering accuracy, for evaluating plasmid binning tools accuracy, motivated by the recently published paper "Circling in on plasmids: benchmarking plasmid detection and reconstruction tools for short-read data from diverse species," by Teixeira et al.

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PlasmidsAlgorithmsCluster AnalysisClustering Algorithmsaccuracy measureclusteringplasmids detection

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PMID42153317
PMCPMC13184515

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