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jenniferlu717 / Bracken

Bracken (Bayesian Reestimation of Abundance with KrakEN) is a highly accurate statistical method that computes the abundance of species in DNA sequences from a metagenomics sample.
http://ccb.jhu.edu/software/bracken/index.shtml
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what's the difference between 'kraken_assigned_reads' and 'added_reads' in Bracken output? #202

Open xiezhan opened 1 year ago

xiezhan commented 1 year ago

what's the difference between 'kraken_assigned_reads' and 'added_reads' in Bracken output?

jenniferlu717 commented 1 year ago

kraken_assigned_reads is the number of reads Kraken assigns for each species originally. Bracken is a post-processing script that takes reads at higher taxonomic levels and adds them to species-level counts