Blog: NCBI’s Sequence Read Archive seriously contaminated with Mycoplasma

~ 11% of NCBI's Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) projects between 2012 and 2013 contain at least >= 100 reads / million reads mapping to mycoplasma's small 0.6 Mb genome: http://blog.genohub.com/mycoplasma-contamination-in-your-sequencing-data/

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