Long-read sequencing data simulation using CAMISIM

Question

[anna]

Hello everyone! I am very new to bioinformatics and have troubles using CAMISIM for long-read sequencing data simulation. CAMISIM paper says: "Further available read simulators are <...> pbsim for simulating Pacific Biosciences data and nanosim for simulating Oxford Nanopore Technologies reads". However, in configuration file template there is a line "# Read simulator type (only ART is currently supported)". Am I understanding it wrongly? Do I use wrong config file, because there are many of them and github manual doesn't state these details clearly.

Thank you !

Answer 1

[Istvan Albert]

Since they explicitly have a pbsim config file, the comment you found is probably just a leftover from another config file that was copied over

https://github.com/CAMI-challenge/CAMISIM/blob/master/defaults/pbsim_config.ini