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If I understand well, scaftigs are the contigs (contiguous sequences) from scaffolds, right? (Can be interpreted as the same set of the original contigs without the ones that are not included in any scaffold).
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Definition of Scaftig
There appears to be a lack of a clear definition of the term "scaftig".
How do you use this term? Is there a good definition somewhere?
I think it should have a very definite distinction from the term contig, and I would define it as
"All portions of a final assembly consisting of contiguous sequence, with sequences split at every occurrence of gaps of unknown bases (Ns)."
For example, if my final assembly is
>C1020304
ACTGTGATCG
>scaffold1234
CGTCGATCnnnnnnCGATCGATnCATGCA
My scaftigs are
>scaftig1
ACTGTGATCG
>scaftig2
CGTCGATC
>scaftig3
CGATCGAT
>scaftig4
CATGCA
Additionally, you could use the term "scaffold scaftigs" if you wanted to make clear that the left-over contigs are not to be included in the set of scaftigs.
References
I have found only a few somewhat inconsistent definitions available, in order of publication:- "A scaftig refers to a continuous sequence formed by multiple initial contigs lined up in a scaffold with putative sequence overlaps."
State of the art de novo assembly of human genomes from massively parallel sequencing data
Hum Genomics. 2010; 4(4): 271–277. (April 1, 2010)
Can sequence not in a scaffold be considered scaftigs? This definition would imply no. - "New word of the day: #scaftigs RT @assemblathon 'scaftigs' intra-scaffold gaps between contigs. #gaw"
Twitter (March 15, 2011)
This strangely seems to define the gaps rather than the sequence. I include this because there are few definitions to be found. - "scaftigs can be constructed by extracting the contiguous sequences that lack unknown bases (Ns)."
Mende DR, Waller AS, Sunagawa S, Järvelin AI, Chan MM, et al. (2012) Assessment of Metagenomic Assembly Using Simulated Next Generation Sequencing Data. PLoS ONE 7(2): e31386. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0031386 (February 23, 2012)
Due to the complexity of the protocols and a limited knowledge of the nature of microbial communities, simulating metagenomic sequences plays an important role in testing the performance of existing tools and data analysis methods with metagenomic data. We developed metagenomic read simulators with platform-specific (Sanger, pyrosequencing, Illumina) base-error models, and simulated metagenomes of differing community complexities. We first evaluated the effect of rigorous quality control on Illumina data. Although quality filtering removed a large proportion of the data, it greatly improved the accuracy and contig lengths of resulting assemblies. We then compared the quality-trimmed Illumina assemblies to those from Sanger and pyrosequencing. For the simple community (10 genomes) all sequencing technologies assembled a similar amount and accurately represented the expected functional composition. For the more complex community (100 genomes) Illumina produced the best assemblies and more correctly resembled the expected functional composition. For the most complex community (400 genomes) there was very little assembly of reads from any sequencing technology. However, due to the longer read length the Sanger reads still represented the overall functional composition reasonably well. We further examined the effect of scaffolding of contigs using paired-end Illumina reads. It dramatically increased contig lengths of the simple community and yielded minor improvements to the more complex communities. Although the increase in contig length was accompanied by increased chimericity, it resulted in more complete genes and a better characterization of the functional repertoire. The metagenomic simulators developed for this research are freely available.
This is closest to my definition - "The resulting high-quality reads were assembled into scaftigs using SOAPdenovo 1.05 and genes predicted on scaftigs longer than 500 nt using MetaGeneMark v1.0"
Country-specific antibiotic use practices impact the human gut resistome
Genome Res. 2013. 23: 1163-1169 (April 8, 2013)
An international, peer-reviewed genome sciences journal featuring outstanding original research that offers novel insights into the biology of all organisms
Supplementary Materials and Methods
I would call these contigs, they are the primary product of an assembly. - ABySS version 1.5.0 introduced a command (May 1, 2014)
"New command, `scaftigs`. Breaks scaffold sequences at 'N's and produce a scaftigs.fa file."
http://www.bcgsc.ca/platform/bioinfo...releases/1.5.0
Other references that I found do not define the term. - "A scaftig refers to a continuous sequence formed by multiple initial contigs lined up in a scaffold with putative sequence overlaps."
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