what is genome bin for software checkM input

[zhaolei6116]

I've completed the genome assembly of bacteria and intended to use the CheckM software to check the quality of the assembly results. When using it, I was prompted that there was an input error and that there were no bins. The genome sequences I assembled are stored in the bin_dir. However, it just can't run. What is the required genome bin and how can I obtain bins? Thank you for your help.

[donovan-h-parks]

Hi. If you genomic FASTA files (bins) do not end with "fna" you need to indicate there file extension with the -x flag. A common situation is for your bins to be compressed and end with "gz" so you need to add -x gz to the CheckM command.

[zhaolei6116]

Thank you very much @donovan-h-parks