Within-species contamination of bacterial whole-genome sequence data has a greater influence on clustering analyses than between-species contamination
Within-species contamination of bacterial whole-genome sequence data has a greater influence on clustering analyses than between-species contamination
Although it is assumed that contamination in bacterial whole-genome sequencing causes errors, the influences of contamination on clustering analyses, such as single-nucleotide polymorphism discovery, phylogenetics, and multilocus sequencing typing, have not been quantified.