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Comment by HayBale

Honestly, a crazy amount of biology and bioinfo works like that. Do any in silico analysis on NCBI accession genomes. I would say wast majority of them is either shoddy at best and at worst completely mislabeled.

Bioinfo tools? You scrape the surface of the reported results and see what is inside and a lot of stuff is either broken or work on a trust me bro principle.

Sequencing? In one technology results can be a bit different depending on the graphic card used and reported error rate is kinda shady.

Don't get me wrong people working with these stuff are amazing but the constant push for publishing more and more and the profit drive of the companies does a lot of bad stuff.

parent HayBale 2 years ago

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