Taxonomic Annotations

Now we’ve assembled and polished our metagenome, it’s time to start using it! In this lesson we will find out which species are present in our sample using taxonomic assignment. This is possible due to the vast amount of sequence data that already exists. We can compare our reads to a database of these sequences and see where the best matches are.

There are a few ways of doing this but we will be using a strategy called k-mers for high accuracy and rapid classification. We’ll then go on to visualise our classification results using an interactive browser application.

After looking at our taxonomy we will use our results to explore and visualise the diversity of our sample.

By the end of this lesson you will be able to:

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