[mira_talk] Re: K-mer coverage filtering

  • From: Chenling <chenlingantelope@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: mira_talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 15:24:25 -0700

I have several datasets, the lowest one is a about 200, and the highest 2000. 

Chenling 
 
On Aug 22, 2014, at 3:22 PM, Adrian Pelin <apelin20@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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