Using bbduk for decontaminating sequences? I did Mi-seq for fosmid DNA but got some E. coli sequences contaminating the data, how can I remove them?

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Using bbduk for decontaminating sequences? I did Mi-seq for fosmid DNA but got some E. coli sequences contaminating the data, how can I remove them? Someone recommended I use bbduk for this, but I don't know how to do that?Thank you!

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