uBin - a manual refining tool for metagenomic bins designed for educational purposes
Bornemann, T. L. V.; Esser, S. P.; Stach, T. L.; Burg, T.; Probst, A. J.
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Resolving bacterial and archaeal genomes from metagenomes has revolutionized our understanding of Earths biomes, yet producing high quality genomes from assembled fragments has been an ever-standing problem. While automated binning software and their combination produce prokaryotic bins in high-throughput, their manual refinement has been slow and sometimes difficult. Here, we present uBin, a GUI-based, standalone bin refiner that runs on all major operating platforms and was specifically designed for educational purposes. When applied to the public CAMI dataset, refinement of bins was able to improve 78.9% of bins by decreasing their contamination. We also applied the bin refiner as a standalone binner to public metagenomes from the International Space Station and demonstrate the recovery of near-complete genomes, whose replication indices indicate active proliferation of microbes in Earths lower orbit. uBin is an easy to install software for bin refinement, binning of simple metagenomes and communication of metagenomic results to other scientists and in classrooms. The software is open source and available under https://github.com/ProbstLab/uBin.
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