A critical assessment of gene catalogs for metagenomic analysis. - Seth Commichaux; Nidhi Shah; Jay Ghurye; Alexander Stoppel; Jessica A. Goodheart; Guillermo G. Luque; Michael P. Cummings; Mihai Pop (Bioinform., 2021)

Database size positively correlates with the loss of species-level taxonomic resolution for the 16S rRNA and other prokaryotic marker genes. - Seth Commichaux; Tu Luan; Harihara Subrahmaniam Muralidharan; Mihai Pop (PLoS Comput. Biol., 2024)