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Hi everyone!

I'd like to choose an assembler for my eukaryotic metatranscriptomics HiSeq (2x100 bp) data from soil (the cDNAs are from eukaryotic poly-A mRNAs) and I saw these two papers:

In these papers, the authors made a comparison of metatranscriptomic assemblers but they seem to have different conclusion on Trinity's performance. The first paper stated that Trinity "provided the best performance", but the second paper showed that Trinity has the highest error rate. So, could anyone here help me to decide whether I should use Trinity (or perhaps IDBA-MTP)?

Thanks!

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updated by Ram Ram • written by sentausa sentausa

Hi! I would like to know how you finally deicided to perform the assembly and annotation of your data, I'm working on something very similar, and until now I'm using only Trinity. best regards!

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written by steph_tf • steph_tf

Hi. Finally I used only Trinity, and I used MG-RAST for the annotation. Good luck!

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written by sentausa sentausa

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Use both assemblers, and evaluate the assemblies with transrate and, perhaps, percentage of annotated contigs as per the paper you listed.

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written by h.mon h.mon

Thanks for mentioning transrate; it's an interesting tool.

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