Poussin, Carine
Khachatryan, Lusine
Sierro, Nicolas
Narsapuram, Vijay Kumar
Meyer, Fernando
Kaikala, Vinay
Chawla, Vandna
Muppirala, Usha
Kumar, Sunil
Belcastro, Vincenzo
Battey, James N. D.
Scotti, Elena
Boué, Stéphanie
McHardy, Alice C.
Peitsch, Manuel C.
Ivanov, Nikolai V.
Hoeng, Julia
Article History
Received: 16 February 2022
Accepted: 25 July 2022
First Online: 30 August 2022
Declarations
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: Any individual or team had to register in the sbv IMPROVER platform to participate and access the challenge data. By registering, participants agreed to comply with the terms and conditions of the challenge.Data for the challenge consisted of sequencing data that were simulated using the ART simulator and real sequencing data generated from a commercially available mix of DNA extracted from pure cultures of eight bacteria and two yeasts at known ratios (ZymoBIOMICS™ Microbial Community DNA Standards, ExternalRef removed). Therefore, no ethics approval was needed. Other data used for the extended analysis were obtained from public repositories.Data submitted by challenge participants were anonymized during their upload on the website. The scoring was conducted blindly following a strict procedure detailed in the “Scoring methodology” section of the Materials and Methods.
: Not applicable.
: All authors except V.K.N., F.M., V.K., V.C., U.M., S.K., and A.C.M. are employees of Philip Morris International. S. B and V.B. were employees of Philip Morris International at the time the work was performed. V.K.N., V.K., V.C., U.M., and S.K. are employees of Corteva Agrisciences.