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bluenote-1577 / sylph

ultrafast taxonomic profiling and genome querying for metagenomic samples by abundance-corrected minhash.
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sylph and long-read #3

Closed gchevignon closed 9 months ago

gchevignon commented 9 months ago

Hello

Does sylph works with long nanopore reads ?

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bluenote-1577 commented 9 months ago

Hi @gchevignon,

Sylph works with long-reads and is quite precise. It may be less sensitive than Kraken or other methods, though. See Figure 3 from our paper.

Thanks,

Jim

gchevignon commented 9 months ago

Ok thanks !!