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  • Aquatic ecology
  • Molecular biology
  • Bioinformatics

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  • Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding is crucial for fish biodiversity assessment.
  • Challenges include incomplete databases and ambiguous species identification.
  • Existing pipelines like MiFish have limitations.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Introduce MitoNGS, a next-generation platform for high-resolution fish metabarcoding analysis.
  • Address limitations of current methods for accurate species-level identification.
  • Provide a user-friendly tool for various aquatic research applications.

Main Methods:

  • Developed MitoNGS with comprehensive references, including non-fish species and heterospecific regions.
  • Implemented a "species complex" strategy combined with environmental and geographic data.
  • Expanded functionality to analyze data from any mitochondrial markers and Nanopore sequencing.

Main Results:

  • MitoNGS demonstrated excellent performance across diverse datasets, locations, markers, and sequencing platforms.
  • Successfully resolved ambiguous taxa, improving species-level identification accuracy.
  • Validated the platform's effectiveness in real-world applications.

Conclusions:

  • MitoNGS offers a robust and user-friendly solution for fish detection and biodiversity monitoring.
  • The platform advances conservation research and bioresource management through improved eDNA analysis.
  • MitoNGS is freely available, promoting wider adoption in the scientific community.