Lightweight taxonomic profiling of long-read metagenomic datasets with Lemur and Magnet
Sapoval, N.; Liu, Y.; Curry, K.; Kille, B.; Huang, W.; Kokroko, N.; Nute, M. G.; Tyshaieva, A.; Dilthey, A. T.; Molloy, E.; Treangen, T. J.
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The advent of long-read sequencing of microbiomes necessitates the development of new taxonomic profilers tailored to long-read shotgun metagenomic datasets. Here, we introduce Lemur and Magnet, a pair of tools optimized for lightweight and accurate taxonomic profiling for long-read shotgun metagenomic datasets. Lemur is a marker-gene-based method that leverages an EM algorithm to reduce false positive calls while preserving true positives; Magnet is a whole-genome read-mapping-based method that provides detailed presence and absence calls for bacterial genomes. We demonstrate that Lemur and Magnet can run in minutes to hours on a laptop with 32 GB of RAM, even for large inputs, a crucial feature given the portability of long-read sequencing machines. Furthermore, the marker gene database used by Lemur is only 4 GB and contains information from over 300,000 RefSeq genomes. Lemur and Magnet are open-source and available at https://github.com/treangenlab/lemur and https://github.com/treangenlab/magnet.
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