Using of Mykrobe tool for targeted next generation sequencing
afsanarupa opened this issue · 3 comments
Dear All,
Can I use Mykrobe tool for targeted sequencing instead of whole genome sequencing?
Apologies for missing this. I assume you mean targeted whete the targets are amplicons over AMR genes, as it done for m tuberculosis.
We looked into this recently with a colleague. Normally mykrobe will refuse to make predictions unless it can confirm the species first. You can force mykrobe to ignore the speciation step. But it still expects the same average depth across the whole genome . If you map your reads first, then subsample the very high coverage amplucons (if there are any) it ought to work. I'll chase the colleague in case their code is available
Hi, For staph and TB, Mykrobe has it's own predefined probes for identifying species, defined by comparing many genomes of different related species. It is not set up to allow you to create your own species-defining probes. But you can tell it to ignore that step, and just predict resistance