MASH

MASH

MASH is for uncovering metagenomic distances using MinHash

Parameters

  • FASTA genome file: file

    Whatever genome file you want to uncover genomic distances from. Can be multipe entries. Can also be a consensus file

  • Reference Genomes: File

    Can be Sketch format .msh or FASTA file.

  • Sketch File 1: option

    Speeds up the process for the input file 1

  • Sketch File 2: option

    Speeds up the process for the input file 2

  • Winnder Take All: option

    Only take the highest (best) distance annotations against the reference for your input file.

Returns

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  1. Distance: tab-separated file

Note

Columns:

  1. Reference-ID

  2. Query-ID

  3. Mash-distance

  4. P-value

  5. Matching-hashes

See more information on calculaions here

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  1. Screen: tab-separated file

Note

Columns:

  1. identity

  2. shared-hashes

  3. median-multiplicity

  4. p-value

  5. query-ID

  6. query-comment

See more information here

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