Much ado about nothing? Off-target amplification can lead to false-positive bacterial brain microbiome detection in healthy and Parkinson’s disease individuals

RT @Falk_tw: Very relevant preprint on false positives in low-biomass microbiomes from @StevenSalzberg1 lab: https://t.co/lXclJxf3Yu Kind o…

Much ado about nothing? Off-target amplification can lead to false-positive bacterial brain microbiome detection in healthy and Parkinson’s disease individuals | Microbiome | Full Text https://t.co/rP7o8gWVH5

Very relevant preprint on false positives in low-biomass microbiomes from @StevenSalzberg1 lab: https://t.co/lXclJxf3Yu Kind of similar to our results on the (non-)brain microbiome, human reads classified as bacteria seems a pervasive problem! (https://t.c

https://t.co/PqXhbhm2Jn How many "false positives" were in human-tissue-associated microbiotas based on the 16S amplicon sequencing method?