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MetaWRAP - a flexible pipeline for genome-resolved metagenomic data analysis
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Determine the classification issues for each bin #366

Open wfgui opened 3 years ago

wfgui commented 3 years ago

Hello, I have a question about classify:why not use kraken2(ultrafast metagenomic sequence classification using exact alignments)? In pipeline,determine the taxonomy of each bin with the Classify_bins module,NCBI_nt and NCBI_tax databases for this module.

Thankes~~

ursky commented 3 years ago

In general, kraken is prone to false-positives so I wanted something more robust. But I agree, kraken2 is great, and you should definitely use it if you want.