[mira_talk] Re: K-mer coverage filtering

  • From: Adrian Pelin <apelin20@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "mira_talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <mira_talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 18:22:17 -0400

What is the nucleotide coverage of your organism of interest?

Sincerely,
Adrian

> On Aug 22, 2014, at 6:20 PM, Chenling <chenlingantelope@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> That could work too but for now all my work is done on a laptop… 
> 
>> On Aug 22, 2014, at 3:17 PM, Adrian Pelin <apelin20@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>> Why not just denovo assemble everything, then blast your contigs vs 
>> endosimbionts?
>> 
>> Sincerely,
>> Adrian
>> 
>>> On Aug 22, 2014, at 5:03 PM, Chenling <chenlingantelope@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi, 
>>> 
>>> I have been trying to assemble endocellular symbiont genomes from 
>>> sequencing of both the host and the symbiont. So far I have been pooling 
>>> out reads from the symbiont by mapping them to a closely related strain and 
>>> getting the reads that map for the assembly. I was just made aware of an 
>>> extra step that might significantly improve this method. Basically I would 
>>> calculate the k-mer coverage for the mapped reads, and because my symbiont 
>>> has much higher coverage than the host (about 10 times higher), once I have 
>>> the expected coverage I would then filter all my reads by the k-mer 
>>> coverage criteria. So this would allow me to get reads even if they are 
>>> divergent from my reference sequence.
>>> 
>>> Is there a way to work this in Mira? 
>>> 
>>> Thank you! 
>>> Chenling 
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