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These files can serve as our database for contaminants as they came from negative controls. NOTE: I will be amending these files slightly to make this statement true, currently the files also have information from the mock community (positive control). This is true as of Oct 13, 2020. I hope to fix this by later this afternoon.
Below, I show how to grow these files to include information from additional negative controls, beyond those in library 1B. We do not have a ‘control’ project for the other libraries, so it wasn’t a simple matter to extract data from negative controls from those libraries. Below, I suggest a possible way for clients to contribute information from their own blanks to the aforementioned files. This represents a first pass toward information sharing, it is likely a better approach will present itself.
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