High resolution species assignment of Anopheles mosquitoes using k-mer distances on targeted sequences
M. Bodde, A. Makunin, D. Ayala, L. Bouafou, A. Diabate, U. F. Ekpo, M. Kientega, G. Le Goff, B. K. Makanga, M. F. Ngangue, O. O. Omitola, N. Rahola, F. Tripet, R. Durbin, M. K. N. Lawniczak
This paper introduces NNoVAE, a method for high-resolution species assignment of Anopheles mosquitoes using k-mer distances, achieving 98% accuracy for the An. gambiae complex and 89% for other species.
bioRxiv · Mar 18, 2022Evolutionary Biology