simulated Reads

Streptococcus pneumoniae is responsible for nearly 1 million deaths every year worldwide. To target the most dominant serotypes with vaccines it is import to track the distribution and evolution of serotypes within the population. Recent efforts have been made to infer serotypes directly from genomic data. Current software approaches are limited and do not scale well. We introduce a novel method SeroBA which uses a hybrid assembly and mapping approach. We have compared SeroBA against real and simulated data.