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title: 'MetaScope: Tools and functions for preprocessing 16S and metagenomic sequencing
  microbiome data'
version: 2.0.0
doi: 10.32614/CRAN.package.MetaScope
identifiers:
- type: url
  value: https://wejlab.github.io/metascope-docs/
abstract: This package contains tools and methods for preprocessing microbiome data.
  Functionality includes library generation, demultiplexing, alignment, and microbe
  identification. It is in part an R translation of the PathoScope 2.0 pipeline.
authors:
- family-names: Lu
  given-names: Sean
  email: seanlu96@gmail.com
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-8005-6125
- family-names: Odom
  given-names: Aubrey
  email: aodom@bu.edu
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7113-7598
- family-names: Varki
  given-names: Rahul
  email: rvarki@bu.edu
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-5721-9484
- family-names: Johnson
  given-names: W. Evan
  email: wej@bu.edu
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6247-6595
repository: https://bioconductor.org/
repository-code: https://github.com/wejlab/MetaScope
commit: 1f2155fa3662f840fac427b934234f2065e5f0b8
url: https://github.com/wejlab/metascope
date-released: '2026-04-28'
contact:
- family-names: Lu
  given-names: Sean
  email: seanlu96@gmail.com
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-8005-6125