Questions tagged [metagenome]
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Is 16S sequencing cheaper than whole-genome sequencing for taxonomic assignment?
This is adapted from a question posted on reddit
In my work, I occasionally get asked about metagenomic sequencing, which (after further questioning) I discover means that the person wants to work out ...
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Variation in 16S rRNA between assemblers - how do I know which is real?
I have a low-diversity metagenome (~11 bins > 80% completion). Out of the bins, 3 are of interest to me. None of the lower-completion bins that can be identified are from the group of interest. So ...
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Feature-selection microbiome data to build a model to predict cancer
I want to build a machine learning model to predict colorectal cancer based on 16S rRNA microbiome data (stool samples).
I have filtered the data using filtering approach by Duvallet(removing samples ...
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What alternatives are there to Bracken?
Bracken is the recommended post-processer of Kraken2 outputs and specifically is expected to improve relative abundance estimates. However, Bracken's Github has over 100 outstanding issues and the ...
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detecting DNA of possible infection on cell line
we've done Whole Genome Sequencing with Illumina on DNA extracted from cell lines, where some are suspected to have been infected by something (viral, bacterial, not sure).
I've tried running ...
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Can files with different R1 and R2 lengths be trusted?
I received paired end amplicon sequence from a LAB with different lengths for R1 (320) and R2(280). Should I trust this lab to sequence other samples?
Also, I had to do a trimming over the R2 at 220(...
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Bracken not working
I have some highly contaminated ancient DNA sequences. I have adapter removed and collapsed these and run them through Kraken2. The Kraken reports show multiple levels of taxa with good numbers of ...
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What would be the best method to obtain every prokaryotic psychrophile genome?
I am interested in running an analysis on the genome of every psychrophilic bacteria. Here defined as bacteria that have an optimal growth temperature at less than 15°C.
What would be the best way to ...
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Blast output file only shows 500 lines -outfmt 6
I had created databases of different sets of metagenome datasets - one with 6 runs, other with 48 runs, another with 100 runs, etc using the accession list for each of these datasets and makeblastdb ...
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How do I build the MinusB database for Kraken2? (Taxonomy issues)
I am attempting to build my own custom database for Kraken2. I have two questions:
If I have the MCPyV genome in a file called MCPyV.fasta, how do I build a database with just this?
How do I build ...
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Kraken2 Standard Database failing to build (unexpected FTP path)
I am attempting to build just the standard Kraken2 Database by using the following command:
kraken2-build --standard --threads 24 --db $DBNAME
I am returned the ...
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How do I build the "Standard Kraken 2 Database"?
I am at this point in the GitHub tutorial: https://github.com/DerrickWood/kraken2/blob/master/docs/MANUAL.markdown#standard-kraken-2-database
It says to create the standard Kraken database, I use the ...
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How do I measure the proportion of different bacteria in a sample from a high-throughput sequencer?
[this question is based on a question that was asked on Reddit]
I have sequenced some [mostly cell-free] DNA from a sputum sample on a nanopore sequencing machine, and would like to know what is in it ...
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eggNOG: DNA-DNA or protein-protein orthologue identification?
I'm trying to work out is how reliable/accurate my eggNOG metagenomic outputs are. Critical for this is how its identifying orthologues.
Background eggNOG is ...
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MAGs transcriptomics pipeline question
I have currently a following problem. I have a one sample that I did my metagenomics on (Illumina shotgun + nanopore) and have recovered some high quality MAGs. I also did a metatranscriptomics on the ...
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Transcriptome analysis
I am trying to assemble reads belonging to two different readlength. Is it a valid way since I am looking for common genes among the species I am assembling.
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MetaQuast for assembling samples from complex communities
I'm working with whole genome metagenomic samples from human skin, and I'm using MEGAHIT for assembly and MetaQuast for evaluation. However, MetaQuast requires a list of reference genomes for the ...
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Generating contigs from illumina Paired End Reads (Metagenome)
I'm a wet-lab biologist desperately trying to get to grips with some Bioinformatics.
I have some shotgun Illumina paired-end data from a gut microbiome project I'm working on. I'm considering how to ...
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rRNA genes missing from metagenomic bins; is there a way to recruit them?
I have a couple of metagenomic bins which are okay in quality, but often missing rRNAs (16S, 23S...). I assume this is due to high population variability, combined with the high conservation of rRNAs, ...
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How to make pan-core genome curve through command line on linux?
I´m working with a dataset of 566 genomes to analyze a pangenome. So I was working with PANWEB to create this pan core genome curve, however, there is too much sequence to work with this webserver. ...
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How can I improve or otherwise investigate an unreliable genome tree?
Summary My genome tree doesn't agree with my gene trees and I get the feeling that my genome tree might be wrong, possibly due to long branch attraction, but I don't know how to check/fix it.
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Phylogenetic tree rooting in shotgun metagenomics
But I have some weeks fighting with this issue about phylogenetic tree building to use in a phyloseq object in order to calculate beta-diversity metrics that takes into account tree distance branches ...
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Krakenuniq mmap error
I built Krakenuniq on an HPC, and I've been trying to run it on my data using the following command:
krakenuniq --db DBDIR --threads 1 All_reads.fastq
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Minimap2 detects too many 16S sequences in metagenome
I'd like to extract bacterial sequences from a metagenome where ~99% of contigs are from a host insect. My current protocol minimaps every 16S sequences present in the sample, then blasts all those ...
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Metagenomics pipeline recommendations for short-read data
de novo metagenomics on viral NGS data is a hot-topic. On this site alone at least 4 specific algorithms have been used to identify multi-strain/multi-species for a given data set, however these do ...
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Co-occurrence networks in Metagenomics studies
I have recently acquired some 16S metagenomics data, and was wondering if anyone can speak of the potential limitations, challenges as well as advantages to conducting a network-based study on ...
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Extract sequence context of high-degree nodes in assembly graphs
I often use metaSPAdes to assemble short reads from human microbiomes. My simplified understanding of short-read de Bruijn graph assemblers is that they fail where ambiguous paths cannot be resolved. ...
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Does it make sense to compare the mean relative coverages for contigs / MAGs from samples that were not co-assembled?
I have a subset of high-quality MAGs from different environments, sequenced on different runs. I want to know, for any particular MAG, if it (or something similar to it) is present in any particular ...
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Removing adapters + primers from fastq files
I am currently in the process of removing adapters and primers from some 16S data acquired, and have a conceptual question regarding this pre-processing step:
So there are a series of different primer ...
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Searching for adapter sequences in FASTQ files - metgenomics
I have recently received some metagenomic data from 16S rrna sequencing. The sequencing company claim to have removed primers, however not adapter sequences. Please note that the files have been ...
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What are some ways to check metagenomic bin quality?
I am new to metagenomic binning. I've used CheckM in order to estimate completeness and contamination values, and most of my bins of interest appear to have good values. My workflow was pretty ...
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Shotgun analysis: Where and how to start?
I am a complete rookie in shotgun analysis, having only performed marker gene analysis before. I have a pipeline that I want to try but I can't wrap my head around how it all works.
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Demovir produces an empty output
I am new to bioinformatics and am working on viral metagenomic (virome) datasets and so would like to use Demovir* for doing taxonomic annotations on my viral contigs.
First, I installed all ...
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How to quantifiy of specific genes from shotgun metagenome?
I have googled a "lot", couldn't find any specific answer to the question. So, I am here seeking for your guidance. My question is similar to this. I have several metagenome (n=30). But for ...
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Which database is good to store (metagenomic) relative abundance data?
The simple question is: how to store relative abundance data in a database? Which database to choose?
I am talking here about metagenomics data, relative abundance of species or some features. Each ...
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Reads count in metagenomics
Background: I am developing a pipeline for metagenomic studies of human gut microbiote. In particular, I am mapping the reads data originating from shotgun whole genome sequencing onto a gene ...
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Analyzing and visualizing metagenomic data
I am starting out in metagenomics,
Aim I wish to understand the whole analysis from the raw reads to interpretation.
Background My current pipeline is used for:
analyzing human gut microbiota cleans ...
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Metagenomics: Identifying most common sequences
I am working on a project and used the following command:
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Software for taxonomic assignment?
I have a couple of hundred bacterial sequences of 2-30 genes of interest each, recovered from metagenomics. None of them encode rRNA. Normally I'd just BLAST the one gene I already know to be reliable ...
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How identifiable are human omics data and how to mitigate their identifying features?
Say a database were to store human omics datasets. The human subjects are known and the sample size is rather small in size initially (n=500). The database contains genomics, transcriptomics, ...
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Kraken2 > OTU format > Phyloseq
A collaborator has passed me over Kraken2 outputs *.report and *.kraken, from a metatranscriptomic sequencing experiment conducted on the minION.
I would like to make a tree if the data using a ...
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Comparing gene abundances between metagenomes
My workflow until now:
Find fragments of a marker gene in unassembled metagenomes > download and assemble metagenomes > recover the gene neighborhood / gene set of interest
Right now I have a ...
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Is it conflicting: significant difference according to Wald test but not in PERMANOVA and ANOSIM to compare species abundances of metagenomic samples?
If there is no significant difference between two groups of metagenomic samples according to "Multivariate differential abundance tests" for example PERMANOVA and ANOSIM, does it makes sense to use "...
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Alternatives to phrap for merging contigs with overlapping ends?
I have bins from metagenomes generated with metabat2 on bitbucket/berkleylab/scr which are predicted as viral by MARVEL. MARVEL ...
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Is there any value in scaffolding the output contigs of MEGAHIT assembler given a metagenomic dataset?
As far as I understood, for most assembly programs, the scaffolding step takes into consideration paired-end information in order to get from contigs (contiguous sequences) to scaffolds (longer ...
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Software for microbial profiling from 16S rRNA gene sequence
I have hundreds of GBs metagenomic 16S rRNA gene sequence data. I want to do microbiome composition profiling (with relative abundance) from the data. Also after that, I will do functional profiling (...
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NCBI SRA database sample: control vs test
I was trying to download some data from NCBI SRA (SRA059451). There are 27 samples available for SRA059451. But i am unable to understand which samples are 'control' and 'test' samples. Please help me ...
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Can I get longer contigs by changing MEGAHIT settings?
My current settings are megahit -r input.fq --num-cpu-threads 32 --min-contig-len 300 --presets meta-large -o output. I picked the 'presets meta-large' because I am ...
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How to calculate coverage depth of genes in an annotated sequence?
I have a metagenomic dataset across multiple samples that has been grouped and binned (we did this due to poor sequence quallity).
It is several samples taken from termite guts of differing castes, ...
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Metagenomic shotgun data with internal control
For 24 human stool samples I have metagenomic shotgun reads from an Illumina platform. The reads were filtered and mapped against a bacterial species library and specific maps to species were kept and ...
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