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 ### Kraken2
 
+[Kraken](https://ccb.jhu.edu/software/kraken2/) is a taxonomic sequence classifier that assigns taxonomic labels to DNA sequences. Kraken examines the k-mers within a query sequence and uses the information within those k-mers to query a database. That database maps -mers to the lowest common ancestor (LCA) of all genomes known to contain a given k-mer.
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 <details markdown="1">
 <summary>Output files</summary>
 
-- `kraken2`
-  - `<sample_id>.classified.fastq.gz`
-  - `<sample_id>.unclassified.fastq.gz`
-  - `<sample_id>.report.txt`
-  - `<sample_id>.classifiedreads.txt`
+- `kraken2/`
+  - `<db_name>_combined_reports.txt`: A combined profile of all samples aligned to a given database (as generated by `krakentools`)
+  - <db_name>/
+    - `<sample_id>_<db_name>.classified.fastq.gz`: FASTQ file containing all reads that had a hit against a reference in the database for a given sample
+    - `<sample_id>_<db_name>.unclassified.fastq.gz`: FASTQ file containing all reads that did not have a hit in the database for a given sample
+    - `<sample_id>_<db_name>.report.txt`: A Kraken2 report that summarises the fraction abundance, taxonomic ID, number of Kmers, taxonomic path of all the hits in the Kraken2 run for a given sample
+    - `<sample_id>_<db_name>.classifiedreads.txt`: A list of read IDs and the hits each read had against each database for a given sample
 
 </details>
 
+The main taxonomic profiling file from Kraken2 is the `_combined_reports.txt` or `*report.txt` file. The former provides you the broadest over view of the taxonomic profiling results across all samples against a single databse, where you get two columns for each sample e.g. `2_all` and `2_lvl`, as well as a summarised column summing up across all samples `tot_all` and `tot_lvl`. The latter gives you the most information for a single sample.  The report file is also used for the taxpasta step.
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+You will only recieve the FASTQs and `*classifiedreads.txt` file if you supply `--kraken2_save_reads` and/or `--kraken2_save_readclassification` parameters to the pipeline.
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 ### KrakenUniq
 
 <details markdown="1">