Decontamination Find hits BLAST blastn -query assembly.fasta -db nt -outfmt "6 qseqid staxids bitscore std sscinames scomnames" -max_hsps 1 -evalue 1e-25 -out blast.out Find BUSCO orthologs BUSCO busco --in assembly.fasta --mode genome --out busco_out -l metazoa_odb10 Mapping long reads to the assembly minimap2 minimap2 -ax map-hifi assembly.fasta hifi_reads.fastq.gz | samtools sort -o minimap2_hifi.bam minimap2 -ax map-ont assembly.fasta ont_reads.fastq.gz | samtools sort -o minimap2_ont.bam Create Blobtools directory Get new_taxdump.tar.gz here Blobtools2 blobtools add --fasta assembly.fasta --cov minimap2_hifi.bam --hits blast.out --busco busco_out/run_metazoa_odb10/full_table.tsv --taxdump taxdump --create blobdir blobtools view --local blobdir