DESMAN: A new tool for de novo extraction of strains from metagenomes
DESMAN: A new tool for de novo extraction of strains from metagenomes
We introduce DESMAN for De novo Extraction of Strains from Metagenomes. Large multi-sample metagenomes are being generated but strain variation results in fragmentary co-assemblies. Current algorithms can bin contigs into metagenome-assembled genomes but are unable to resolve strain-level variation.