This article is clear and devastating. But it’s easy to think only of one wrong study when we could think about science & #reproducibility more broadly. #bioinformatics data analysis workflows should yield explicit provenance for conclusions; “what analyses gives evidence for (thing)?” The original authors assume “remaining data contains no human sequence” but have no independent test. Unfortunately in #microbiome work it’s rare to have multiple tests of data filtering or taxonomic assignment
This article is clear and devastating. But it’s easy to think only of one wrong study when we could think about science & #reproducibility more broadly. #bioinformatics data analysis workflows should yield explicit provenance for conclusions; “what analyses gives evidence for (thing)?” The original authors assume “remaining data contains no human sequence” but have no independent test. Unfortunately in #microbiome work it’s rare to have multiple tests of data filtering or taxonomic assignment