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Table 4 Number of contaminating genera and species having at least one hundred matches, and a relative abundance ≥ 5% in at least one sample/group are shown, for each of the three considered kingdoms and for Tumor and Control samples

From: From trash to treasure: detecting unexpected contamination in unmapped NGS data

 

Tumors

Controls

 

Genus

Species

Genus

Species

Bacteria

100

199

57

91

Fungi

12

15

8

10

Viruses

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9

/

7