Dear experts,
I have seen some studies that used all reads from different samples (metagenomic datasets) to generate master assembly. Then map reads from each sample to the master assembly and calculate its contribution or recruitment rate of each sample to the master assembly. I do not fully understand main purpose of doing this. Why comparing contribution rate of reads from each sample is interesting to see? Could someone help me understand this? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I have seen some studies that used all reads from different samples (metagenomic datasets) to generate master assembly. Then map reads from each sample to the master assembly and calculate its contribution or recruitment rate of each sample to the master assembly. I do not fully understand main purpose of doing this. Why comparing contribution rate of reads from each sample is interesting to see? Could someone help me understand this? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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