Auto remove the contamination?

[GallVp]

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[GallVp]

It's not that easy. People might make a mistake on the TRIM action: https://github.com/ncbi/fcs/wiki/FCS-adaptor#rules-for-action-assignment

[GallVp]

Add a responsibility statement.

[GallVp]

Please see point 3 here: https://github.com/ncbi/fcs/wiki/FCS-GX-quickstart#usage-examples

By default the NCBI GX tool hard masks internal contaminants. Hard masking already has multiple meaning. First, it can represent a gap. Second, it can represent hard masking by a tool such as repeat masker. Now with this, it can also mean hard masking due to contamination.

Some suggestions:

1. Adaptors should be removed by the assembler software.
2. Foreign organism contamination should be removed following the recommendations from NCBI FCS GX (https://github.com/ncbi/fcs/wiki/FCS-GX-output#fcs-gx-action-report), except for the FIX action for internal contaminations. Instead of hard masking the contamination, we should insert 100 N's there to denote a gap of unknown size.