Tutorials¶
Simple distance estimation¶
Download example E. coli genomes:
Run:
mash dist genome1.fna genome2.fna
The results are tab delimited lists of Reference-ID, Query-ID, Mash-distance, P-value, and Matching-hashes:
genome1.fna genome2.fna 0.0222766 0 456/1000
Saving time by sketching first¶
mash sketch genome1.fna
mash sketch genome2.fna
mash dist genome1.fna.msh genome2.fna.msh
Pairwise comparisons with compound sketch files¶
Download additional example E. coli genome:
Sketch the first two genomes to create a combined archive, use mash info
to verify its contents, and estimate pairwise distances:
mash sketch -o reference genome1.fna genome2.fna
mash info reference.msh
mash dist reference.msh genome3.fna
This will estimate the distance from each query (which there is one of) to each reference (which there are two of in the sketch file):
genome1.fna genome3.fna 0 0 1000/1000
genome2.fna genome3.fna 0.0222766 0 456/1000
Querying read sets against an existing RefSeq sketch¶
Download the pre-sketched RefSeq archive (reads not provided here; 10x-100x coverage of a single genome with any sequencing technology should work):
Plasmids also available:
refseq.genomes+plasmids.k21.s1000.msh refseq.plasmids.k21.s1000.msh
Concatenate paired ends (this could also be piped to mash
to save space by
specifying -
for standard input, zipped or unzipped):
cat reads_1.fastq reads_2.fastq > reads.fastq
Sketch the reads, using -m 2
to improve results
by ignoring single-copy k-mers, which are more likely to be erroneous:
mash sketch -m 2 reads.fastq
Run mash dist
with the RefSeq archive as the reference and the read
sketch as the query:
mash dist refseq.genomes.k21.s1000.msh reads.fastq.msh > distances.tab
Sort the results to see the top hits and their p-values:
sort -gk3 distances.tab | head
Screening a read set for containment of RefSeq genomes¶
(new in Mash v2.0)
If a read set potentially has multiple genomes, it can be “screened” against the database to estimate how well each genome is contained in the read set. We can use the SRA Toolkit to download ERR024951:
fastq-dump ERR024951
…and screen it against Refseq Genomes (link above), sorting the results:
mash screen refseq.genomes.k21s1000.msh ERR024951.fastq > screen.tab
sort -gr screen.tab | head
We see the expected organism, Salmonella enterica, but also an apparent contaminant, Klebsiella pneumoniae. The fields are [identity, shared-hashes, median-multiplicity, p-value, query-ID, query-comment]:
0.99957 991/1000 26 0 GCF_000841985.1_ViralProj14228_genomic.fna.gz NC_004313.1 Salmonella phage ST64B, complete genome
0.99957 991/1000 24 0 GCF_002054545.1_ASM205454v1_genomic.fna.gz [57 seqs] NZ_MYON01000010.1 Salmonella enterica strain BCW_4905 NODE_10_length_152932_cov_1.77994, whole genome shotgun sequence [...]
0.999522 990/1000 102 0 GCF_900086185.1_12082_4_85_genomic.fna.gz [51 seqs] NZ_FLIP01000001.1 Klebsiella pneumoniae strain k1037, whole genome shotgun sequence [...]
0.999329 986/1000 24 0 GCF_002055205.1_ASM205520v1_genomic.fna.gz [72 seqs] NZ_MYOO01000010.1 Salmonella enterica strain BCW_4904 NODE_10_length_177558_cov_3.07217, whole genome shotgun sequence [...]
0.999329 986/1000 24 0 GCF_002054075.1_ASM205407v1_genomic.fna.gz [88 seqs] NZ_MYNK01000010.1 Salmonella enterica strain BCW_4936 NODE_10_length_177385_cov_3.78874, whole genome shotgun sequence [...]
0.999329 986/1000 24 0 GCF_000474475.1_CFSAN001184_01.0_genomic.fna.gz [45 seqs] NZ_AUQM01000001.1 Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serovar Typhimurium str. CDC_2009K1158 isolate 2009K-1158 SEET1158_1, whole genome shotgun sequence [...]
0.999329 986/1000 24 0 GCF_000474355.1_CFSAN001186_01.0_genomic.fna.gz [46 seqs] NZ_AUQN01000001.1 Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serovar Typhimurium str. CDC_2009K1283 isolate 2009K1283 (Typo) SEET1283_1, whole genome shotgun sequence [...]
0.999329 986/1000 24 0 GCF_000213635.1_ASM21363v1_genomic.fna.gz [2 seqs] NC_016863.1 Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serovar Typhimurium str. UK-1, complete genome [...]
0.999281 985/1000 24 0 GCF_001271965.1_Salmonella_enterica_CVM_N43825_v1.0_genomic.fna.gz [67 seqs] NZ_LIMN01000001.1 Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serovar Typhimurium strain CVM N43825 N43825_contig_1, whole genome shotgun sequence [...]
0.999281 985/1000 24 0 GCF_000974215.1_SALF-297-3.id2_v1.0_genomic.fna.gz [90 seqs] NZ_LAPO01000001.1 Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serovar Typhimurium strain SALF-297-3 NODE_1, whole genome shotgun sequence [...]
Note, however, that multiple strains of Salmonella enterica have good identity. This is because they are each contained well when considered independently. For this reason mash screen
is not a true classifier. However, we can remove much of the redundancy
for interpreting the results using the winner-take-all strategy (-w
). And while we’re at it, let’s throw some more cores at
the task to speed it up (-p 4
):
mash screen -w -p 4 refseq.genomes.k21s1000.msh ERR024951.fastq > screen.tab
sort -gr screen.tab | head
The output is now much cleaner, with just the two whole genomes, plus phages (a lot of other hits to viruses and assembly contigs would appear further down):
0.99957 991/1000 24 0 GCF_002054545.1_ASM205454v1_genomic.fna.gz [57 seqs] NZ_MYON01000010.1 Salmonella enterica strain BCW_4905 NODE_10_length_152932_cov_1.77994, whole genome shotgun sequence [...]
0.99899 979/1000 26 0 GCF_000841985.1_ViralProj14228_genomic.fna.gz NC_004313.1 Salmonella phage ST64B, complete genome
0.998844 976/1000 101 0 GCF_900086185.1_12082_4_85_genomic.fna.gz [51 seqs] NZ_FLIP01000001.1 Klebsiella pneumoniae strain k1037, whole genome shotgun sequence [...]
0.923964 190/1000 40 0 GCF_000900935.1_ViralProj181984_genomic.fna.gz NC_019545.1 Salmonella phage SPN3UB, complete genome
0.900615 111/1000 100 0 GCF_001876675.1_ASM187667v1_genomic.fna.gz [137 seqs] NZ_MOXK01000132.1 Klebsiella pneumoniae strain AWD5 Contig_(1-18003), whole genome shotgun sequence [...]
0.887722 82/1000 31 3.16322e-233 GCF_001470135.1_ViralProj306294_genomic.fna.gz NC_028699.1 Salmonella phage SEN34, complete genome
0.873204 58/1000 22 1.8212e-156 GCF_000913735.1_ViralProj227000_genomic.fna.gz NC_022749.1 Shigella phage SfIV, complete genome
0.868675 52/1000 57 6.26251e-138 GCF_001744215.1_ViralProj344312_genomic.fna.gz NC_031129.1 Salmonella phage SJ46, complete genome
0.862715 45/1000 1 1.05185e-116 GCF_001882095.1_ViralProj353688_genomic.fna.gz NC_031940.1 Salmonella phage 118970_sal3, complete genome
0.856856 39/1000 21 6.70643e-99 GCF_000841165.1_ViralProj14230_genomic.fna.gz NC_004348.1 Enterobacteria phage ST64T, complete genome