Table 2 Tools comparison on handling contamination from a different source

From: De novo identification of microbial contaminants in low microbial biomass microbiomes with Squeegee

 

Squeegee

Recentrifuge30

Decontam3

DecontaMiner43

Conterminator23

Lab environment

  

Lab reagents

  

Taxonomic classification errors

    

Cross-contamination

   

DNA from host/human

   

 

Contaminated database

    

Negative control free

 

(*)

  1. *Decontam requires either auxiliary DNA quantitation data or negative control data.