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March 6, 2026Bioinformatics0 citationsOpen Access

Response to: Best practices when benchmarking CATCH for the design of genome enrichment probes

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JAJarno AlankoISIlya B. SlizovskiyDLDaniel Lokshtanov

Key Points

  • To clarify the design principles and evaluation strategies of the Syotti probe-design tool.
  • Developed a robust probe-design tool called Syotti.
  • Focused on minimal parameter tuning for diverse bacterial datasets.
  • Emphasized simultaneous large-scale design capabilities.
  • Syotti performs effectively as an alternative to CATCH.
  • Demonstrated enhanced scalability for heterogeneous datasets.
  • Highlighted its reliability in various problem settings.

Abstract

We clarify the design principles and evaluation choices underlying Syotti, a robust and scalable probe-design tool developed to support large, heterogeneous bacterial datasets with minimal parameter tuning. We highlight Syotti's ability to perform simultaneous large-scale designs and its effectiveness as a reliable alternative when existing tools such as CATCH are not well suited to the problem setting.

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Alanko et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69aa70c8531e4c4a9ff5ad5ehttps://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btag100
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