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MHASS: Microbiome HiFi Amplicon Sequencing Simulator
Rye Howard-Stone1, Ion I Măndoiu1
1School of Computing, University of Connecticut, CT, 06269, United States.
Summary:
Microbiome HiFi Amplicon Sequence Simulator (MHASS) creates realistic synthetic PacBio HiFi amplicon sequencing datasets for microbiome studies, by integrating genome-aware abundance modeling, realistic dual-barcoding strategies, and empirically derived pass-number distributions from actual sequencing runs. MHASS generates datasets tailored for rigorous benchmarking and validation of long-read microbiome analysis workflows, including ASV clustering and taxonomic assignment.
Availability And Implementation:
Implemented in Python with automated dependency management, the source code for MHASS is freely available at https://github.com/rhowardstone/MHASS along with installation instructions. Our code is also published on Zenodo at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17486364. The data underlying this article are available on GitHub at https://github.com/rhowardstone/MHASS_evaluation/.
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