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In Genome biology ; h5-index 114.0

Binning aims to recover microbial genomes from metagenomic data. For complex metagenomic communities, the available binning methods are far from satisfactory, which usually do not fully use different types of features and important biological knowledge. We developed a novel ensemble binner, MetaBinner, which generates component results with multiple types of features by k-means and uses single-copy gene information for initialization. It then employs a two-stage ensemble strategy based on single-copy genes to integrate the component results efficiently and effectively. Extensive experimental results on three large-scale simulated datasets and one real-world dataset demonstrate that MetaBinner outperforms the state-of-the-art binners significantly.

Wang Ziye, Huang Pingqin, You Ronghui, Sun Fengzhu, Zhu Shanfeng

2023-Jan-06

Binning, Metagenome, Metagenomics