Hello!
Thank you for your interest.
1) About the pre-built database, this is an excellent question, please let me know get back to you about this issue in a separate email soon.
For the moment, we are recommending users to build their own databases but it is possible that we may provide access to pre-built databases files to CLARK users soon.
However, please note that if you work with public data/samples, you can run the CLARK tools with the
insideDNA platform (you can create an account and run your analysis with CLARK through their cloud-based solutions).
2) What exactly do you mean by "splitting input" paired-end reads "according to classification results of CLARK" ?
Could you please an example of you want to obtain?
For example, say you have N paired-end reads as input, and so CLARK gives you N results, then what is the outcome you are looking for?
Thank you again for your interest!
Best,
Rachid