#3 interpreting ".abundance" files

[claire campbell]

I ran maxbin2 with -reads option specified. The resulting ".abundance" file has values for the forward and reverse reads for each bin. Is this a coverage value or # of reads mapped to that bin?

[Yu-Wei Wu]

The abundance file is for reporting the abundances for the "bins." There are also some other files named "abund1," "abund2," "abund3," etc. for recording the abundances calculated for the contigs of each metagenomic read set. I did not include reads number but you can easily derive this value using "cat (contig file) | grep '>' | wc -l" command. Hope that helps.