8 | DATA AVAILABILITY STATEMENT
The CRABS code is available on the public GitHub repo (https://github.com/gjeunen/reference_database_creator), as well as via conda packaging. The reference databases that were created to compare software programs are available as supplemental files (Supplement 3), as well as the code used to generate them (Supplement 2). The sequencing data used in this manuscript to compare the impact on taxonomy assignment between reference databases was obtained from published literature. The generated OTUs, plus their sequences and taxonomy assignments are available as supplemental files (Supplement 6)