On Nov 28, 2011, at 21:32 , Christoph Hahn wrote: > One more question concerning mirabait: Say you know that your data contains > contaminations with host DNA in addition to the parasite data you are > interested in, I suppose mirabait could be used also to find this > contaminations in the illumina data set, right? One would just need a decent > reference or "bait" dataset from the host organism.. Any potential problems > with this approach? No, I use this kind of approach for a couple of tasks. As long as the reference is sufficiently close and there is no common sequence shared between host & parasite, things work as expected. B. -- You have received this mail because you are subscribed to the mira_talk mailing list. For information on how to subscribe or unsubscribe, please visit http://www.chevreux.org/mira_mailinglists.html