End-to-end eDNA metabarcoding from raw amplicons to community ecology. Covers QC, primer removal (mandatory before DADA2 filterAndTrim), denoising with OBITools3 v3 (obi stats plural; DMS-based) or DADA2 ASVs (Callahan 2017), decontam combined method as screening-not-classifier (Davis 2018), tag-...
Processes eDNA metabarcoding from raw paired-end reads to species tables, navigating ASV (DADA2, UNOISE3) vs OTU (swarm v2) decision (Callahan 2017 vs Schloss multi-copy-16S critique), marker/primer choice (Leray COI, MiFish 12S, 515F/806R 16S, ITS2) with primer-specific bias, OBITools3 v3 comman...