Hi #eDNA community! I'm looking for review articles or guidelines on the filtration and normalization of #eDNA metabarcoding data. Thanks for your help!
Since I started working on #eDNA (4 years ago), it is still very difficult to find guidelines on qPCR data processing and analysis (especially for microcosm experiments). Scripts and data are rarely available... This would be a great contribution to the eDNA field!
@Morgan_R_Ellis @KayCritchell Yes certainly, however I think that building common guidelines for eDNA analysis (whether by metabarcoding or qPCR) would really help move the issue forward and have more confidence in the results obtained with eDNA.
@AlejandroT_G And what should we do with these triplicates, average the three values (even if there is a zero) or remove the zeros and then average? I have seen many different things in the literature..
@AlejandroT_G In fact, I am looking for a "standardised" approach to clean and process raw qPCR data. For example: how to sort values for which we have a high Cq (the threshold of the Miqe guidelines may not be adapted to eDNA), what to do when the qPCR triplicates include one or more zeros?
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