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Plasmid Stability Analysis with Open-Source Droplet Microfluidics
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On using clustering statistics for assessing plasmid binning tools accuracy
Victor Epain1, Aniket Mane1, Cedric Chauve1
1Department of Mathematics, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, V5A 1S6 BC, Canada.
Briefings in Bioinformatics
|May 19, 2026
Abstract
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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.

