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Data curation and data analysis: Fontana F, Tarracchini C, Milani C, Mancabelli L
Supervision and manuscript editing: Turroni F, Ventura M

Availability of data and materials
The MEGAnnotator2 pipeline is downloadable at http://probiogenomics.unipr.it/cmu/. The installer file
can be retrieved under the “Software & Tools” drop-down menu, section “MEGAnnotator2”, button
“Download MEGAnnotator2”. In the same section, the manual can be downloaded using the button
“Download Manual”.

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Conflicts of interest
All authors declared that there are no conflicts of interest.

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