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A database for storing and analyzing omics data
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Incorporate decontam into MMEDS #412

Open cleme opened 2 years ago

cleme commented 2 years ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Decontamination is an important problem in low biomass samples.

Describe the solution you'd like Incorporate the decontam package (https://benjjneb.github.io/decontam/vignettes/decontam_intro.html) to identify potential contaminants in the analysis.

Additional context Because decontam is used to identify contaminants that would need to be removed, this would be part of pre-processing of data. In many cases the decision to remove a contaminant is somewhat subjective, meaning this process cannot be fully automated. So we should be able to generate decontam results, even if MMEDS is not able to use those results automatically.