Unclassified

[kesava31]

Hi
I am running ampliseq for eukaryotic classification. I can see many unclassified data based on Barrnap.. (Barrnap classified 13 ( 0.42 %) ASVs as most similar to Bacteria, 16 ( 0.52 %) ASVs to Archea, 0 ( 0 %) ASVs to Mitochondria, 156 ( 5.09 %) ASVs to Eukaryotes, and 2878 ( 93.96 %) were below similarity threshold to any kingdom.)

I using PR2 5.0 database with the following run command. Any suggestion to improve the classification.

nextflow run nf-core/ampliseq -r 2.10.0 -profile singularity --max_cpus 16
--input_folder (Project)
--FW_primer CGGTAAYTCCAGCTCYV --RV_primer CCGTCAATTHCTTYAART
--cutadapt_min_overlap 3 --trunc_qmin 20
--trunclenf 230 --trunclenr 180
--min_len 50 --max_len 550
--vsearch_cluster --vsearch_cluster_id 0.97
--filter_ssu euk
--dada_ref_taxonomy pr2=5.0.0
--max_memory 16.GB

[d4straub]

It is slightly worrisome that barrnap cannot classify so many ASVs. And because you are using --filter_ssu euk, all of those are discarded before taxonomic classification with PR2. So I recommend to omit --filter_ssu euk and append -resume and check in the final taxonomic classification whether that might be better aligned to your expectation.

[kesava31]

Thank you very much. I run the pipeline with by removing --filter_ssu euk. I hope it should work now.