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DNA barcoding has recently emerged for fast taxonomic classification of species using molecular biomarkers. Different from traditional classification scheme, DNA barcode often involves a small number of samples in each class, likely leading to a phenomenon known as overfit. To evaluate the efficacy of a biomarker based on a given meaningful multiple sequence alignment, we use a metric-based information...