Removing ASV's Found in Extraction Blanks

Hi @Hasti_A,

Welcome to the :qiime2: forums!

Congratulations, you have stumbled into one of thsoe horrifying secrets of microbiome reserach that no one talks about (or everyone talks about).

I'd recommend reading the thread on decontamination:

You might also look at a slightly different perscective about well-to-well contamination if you ever used robotic processing in your samples

https://journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.1128/mSystems.00186-19

Best,
Justine

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