While the code to do this is really cool, it's highly likely that the SRR accessions are contaminated themselves (e.g. with kit contam!) and so we probably shouldn't add them to the database. I bet we would frequently match against them and it would be hard to interpret what that actually means.
We could potentially filter to just really highly abundant stuff, but even then we might get a bunch of adapters or phix or something.
taylorreiter
commented
1 year ago
While the code to do this is really cool, it's highly likely that the SRR accessions are contaminated themselves (e.g. with kit contam!) and so we probably shouldn't add them to the database. I bet we would frequently match against them and it would be hard to interpret what that actually means.
We could potentially filter to just really highly abundant stuff, but even then we might get a bunch of adapters or phix or something.