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ArticleMicrobiome2024

Fairy: fast approximate coverage for multi-sample metagenomic binning.

Jim Shaw, Yun William Yu

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Article in Microbiome, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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  5. CoverM: read alignment statistics for metagenomics.Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2025
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Jim ShawDepartment of Mathematics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. jshaw@math.toronto.edu.
Yun William YuDepartment of Mathematics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. ywyu@cmu.edu.

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Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada CGS-DNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada RGPIN-2022-309 03074
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundMetagenomic binning, the clustering of assembled contigs that belong to the same genome, is a crucial step for recovering metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs). Contigs are linked by exploiting consistent signatures along a genome, such as read coverage patterns. Using coverage from multiple samples leads to higher-quality MAGs; however, standard pipelines require all-to-all read alignments for multiple samples to compute coverage, becoming a key computational bottleneck.

resultsWe present fairy ( https://github.com/bluenote-1577/fairy ), an approximate coverage calculation method for metagenomic binning. Fairy is a fast k-mer-based alignment-free method. For multi-sample binning, fairy can be

conclusionsFairy is a new tool for approximately and quickly calculating multi-sample coverage for binning, resolving a computational bottleneck for metagenomics. Video Abstract.

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MetagenomeMetagenomicsAlgorithmsArchaeaComputational BiologySequence Analysis, DNASoftwareAlignment-freeCoverage calculationK-mersMetagenomic binning

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PMID39143609
PMCPMC11323348

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