Note: This topic is not applicable to BAM-based projects.
Contaminant Screening parameters determine how SeqMan Pro recognizes contaminant sequences in your project. Access these parameters by selecting Project > Parameters and choosing Contaminant Screening from the list on the left.
Type in the Minimum Number of Matches required to mark a given sequence as a contaminant. A match in this instance is any 16-mer in common. The default number of matches, 5, includes the case of single 21-mer, which is 5 16-mers overlapping at consecutive 1-base offsets.