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Taxonomy assignment from draft genome

Hi,

I have two assembled and annotated draft genomes of non-model fungal species. Based on the previous 18S analysis, they were both found to be closely related to Penicillium.

Now that I have the genome, I wanted to assign taxonomy. What is your preferred way of assigning taxonomy from draft genome assemblies?

Thanks, Morgan S.

whole genome taxonomy genome fungi

It depends how accurate the results should be. If you want something ultra fast you could try MASH against pre-sketched RefSeq. The slow way is to detect homologs between closely related species (e.g. ribosomal proteins) and build a tree from a concatenated trimmed alignment with e.g. RAxML and/or PhyloBayes

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You can give KAIJU a try. And use NCBI BLAST nr +euk - as above, but also including fungi and microbial eukaryotes option

Paper link is here

You can also use standalone version which could be downloaded here

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