classify plant reads in metagenomes

[gabridinosauro]

Dear Sourmash team,

Hope you are all good. I have a project where I have some shotgun metagenomics data of wild rodents.
I want to see if I can classify reads to plant genomes, to have an idea of their diet.

Is it possible to do it with sourmash?
I suppose I would have to make my own database as I do not see any databases containing plants already available.

Thanks in advance.

Gabriele

[ctb]

Hi Gabri, sorry for ignoring your issue for so long 😭

Short version - we don't have anything formal for plants, BUT if you can find a listing of all the things you want - maybe an assembly_summary file? - we can put together a recipe for sketching it quickly. Sound good?

[gabridinosauro]

Hi Titus,
sounds great. Here attached the list of all plant genomes marked as reference in the genbank, with their accession numbers and taxID. Is that fine or you need any other info?

Thanks a lot again!
Gabri

Rerence_genomes_plants_genbank.csv