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Nanopore sequencing technology intrinsically encodes epigenetic modifications such as methylation, which can be leveraged for plasmid\u2013host associations from metagenomic data. Existing methods rely on the recovery of metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs), which can introduce bias towards abundant taxa and leave clinically relevant, low-abundance pathogens unassociated. To address this limitation, we extended methylation-based plasmid\u2013host association from the MAG level to individual assembly contigs and sequencing reads. The Contig- and Unassembled-read-based Pathogen Identification and Delineation (CUPID) pipeline implements the calculation of contig and read similarity scores, which compare weighted mean methylation rates across motifs genetically shared between any contig or read pair. 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