@article{optimotutaxonomicallyawareotuclustering, title = {OptimOTU: Taxonomically aware OTU clustering with optimized thresholds and a bioinformatics workflow for metabarcoding data}, author = {Brendan Furneaux and Sten Anslan and Panu Somervuo and Jenni Hultman and Nerea Abrego and Tomas Roslin and Otso Ovaskainen}, year = {2025}, eprint = {2502.10350}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.10350v1}, }