What Do Plasmid, complete, WGS etc genome status mean in PATRIC Database?

Question

[nurunnaharnila786]

Hi Everyone!! I'm a student from Biochemistry background and recently trying to work with Bioinformatics. But here, while working with the Bacterial genome, in PATRIC database i found 3 filter options of genome status of bacteria and i can't get it anywhere, even i searched some papers on PATRIC database. As i am a newborn baby in bioinformatics field, please help this little girl to adapt and keep hope in this field. Thank you.

[GenoMax]

plasmid - should be presence/sequence of plasmids in the strain you are looking at
complete - is likely complete genome sequence
WGS - could be whole genome shotgun or whole genome sequence. This may not be complete (as in a single contiguous sequence for whole genome).

Answer 1

[aziznasr1920]

Complete genome: Is a genome composed of 1 contig, no interruption, no stops, completed and detailed genome. WGS: Whole-genome sequence/shotgun: Is a genome composed of more than 1 contigs, that needs to be attached to each other by scaffolding. Plasmid:A plasmid is a small, extrachromosomal DNA molecule within a cell that is physically separated from chromosomal DNA and can replicate independently.

PS: contig: an assembly of reads coming from the sequencer.