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ENH: Primers should not have to match reference 100%, use mismatch-tolerant alignment

Open corneliusroemer opened this issue 2 years ago • 1 comments

Matthijs Welkers mentioned that he had tried to use Nextclade's primer feature with monkeypox (he has published an amplicon tiling scheme for nanopore) but that he got an error when he tried using his primers because some of them were mutated with respect to the reference used by Nextclade.

It would be possible and very useful if primers would align in an error tolerant way with any reference - so that one can upload any primers, not just primers that are subsets of the reference sequence.

This is technically doable, would be a natural extension of the current work on improving seed-matching.

corneliusroemer avatar Aug 05 '22 17:08 corneliusroemer

If I may jump in here, if you're looking at expanding the primer checking features of nextclade, it would be super awesome to have the primer checking step as a separate command within nextclade cli so that I can run nextclade primer-check without having to perform.

ammaraziz avatar Feb 12 '24 01:02 ammaraziz