Need abundance information

[satishv]

mash seems to just give us the probability of the genome not abundance information.

we need composition (% or abs abundance) info that we need for our analysis.

Can you please an enhancement, where mash will output a table of % composition by taxa from each input file/filesets?

we will be happy to provide more information.

[ms-gx]

You can provide argument -w. Then only the best query hit will be counted for a read. In the output you can then check column median-multiplicity which is a rough proxy for abundance of a genome.