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Decontamination: add hostile for host removal #346

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jfy133 opened this issue Aug 8, 2023 · 5 comments
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Decontamination: add hostile for host removal #346

jfy133 opened this issue Aug 8, 2023 · 5 comments
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jfy133 commented Aug 8, 2023

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Add the HOSTILE tool for host decontamination

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.07.04.547735v1

https://github.com/bede/hostile

@jfy133 jfy133 added the enhancement Improvement for existing functionality label Aug 8, 2023
@jfy133 jfy133 added this to the 1.4.0 - Dystopic Doberman milestone Aug 8, 2023
@jfy133 jfy133 changed the title Decontamination: add hostile Decontamination: add hostile for host removal Aug 8, 2023
@LilyAnderssonLee LilyAnderssonLee self-assigned this Aug 8, 2023
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It's interesting to see the various reference genome options available in HOSTILE, such as combining the human T2T genome with HLA, argos985 and mycob140. This combination can filter out human reads from the MTC region and retain more microbial reads. For additional details, please check: bede/hostile#27

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jfy133 commented Aug 21, 2023

I think the reference genome is often the most important factor!

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jfy133 commented Aug 21, 2023

so indeed this will be helpful

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LilyAnderssonLee commented Aug 21, 2023

@jfy133 I agree with you.
In our clinical cases, it's quite often to see that false positives caused by human rRNA.
Therefore I am considering to include human rRNA databases in the reference genome. Even though the human Telomere-to-Telomere (T2T) assembly offers better results compared to GRCh38, assembling rRNA remains a challenge due to its high repetitiveness and significant variations between individuals, ages, and even certain types of cancers.

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jfy133 commented Aug 21, 2023

Not a bad idea! But I'm not sure if at that point it is worth investing so much into the host reference, rather than checking whether the microbial reference genomes are clean...

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