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Which kmers are used? #7
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Hi Charlie, I believe the question would need to be a bit more detailed.. |
Mea culpa. I'm interested in analysis of metagenomes for sample discrimination. I run simka on a set of assemblies and am curious about what the kmer partitioning process entailed, and how sample kmers were assigned to the partitions/bins. I was going to cluster samples based on the kmers partitions though I am unsure if this is meaningful. I am unsure where, and if, simka saves the kmers that go to a given partition. |
Hi Charlie, The kmer partitioning is not used to discriminate the samples but to make the kmer counting step faster. Kmers are distributed to P different files according to a given hash function, and then the kmers of each file can be counted independently and more rapidly. The distribution of kmers (given by the hash function) has no biological or statistical meaning and is just a trick to divide the problem and count the kmers faster. Therefore, I do not think that recovering kmers of each partition will answer your question. However, Simka is the good tool if you want to cluster or discriminate your samples. It computes distances between all pairs of samples based on the kmer counts, and you can surely cluster samples based on these distances. Simka was actually developped for this objective. In fact, in the If you still need to recover kmer sequences, for instance recovering subsets of kmers according to their presence/absence in some datasets, you may have a look at the software DSK : http://github.com/GATB/dsk and its option |
Dr. Lemaitre, |
Can the kmers corresponding to a partition be recovered?
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