text: user4401: I have a couple of metagenomic bins which are okay in quality, but often missing rRNAs (16S, 23S...). I assume this is due to high population variability, combined with the high conservation of rRNAs, and reads of at most 300 bp. My binning software of choice is vamb.
  Could this be fixed? Once a metagenomic bin is built, is there a way to see which 16S (or multiple 16S possible sequences) are likely to be associated with it? I considered using tools which explore the assembly graph, either manually (Bandage) or automatically (spacegraphcats), but I'm not sure if this is the right approach. After all, if the rRNA genes were linked in the assembly graph to genes that now clearly belong to a bin, they would have been added to that bin...It feels like this is a problem others may have encountered before, so I was wondering if anyone has an idea : )
  
  user2108: I considered mentioning this but considered it implausible. However, apparently people are actually able to use PE shotgun data to link rRNA genes to MAGs.
  This is something that is quite trivial with linked-read or Hi-C data, but I am assuming that you don't have these data (and don't have the desire to go back and generate them). However you presumably have PE shotgun data that you used to generate your MAGs.
  
original_text: 4401: <p>I have a couple of metagenomic bins which are okay in quality, but often missing rRNAs (16S, 23S...). I assume this is due to high population variability, combined with the high conservation of rRNAs, and reads of at most 300 bp. My binning software of choice is vamb.</p>
  <p>Could this be fixed? Once a metagenomic bin is built, is there a way to see which 16S (or multiple 16S possible sequences) are likely to be associated with it? I considered using tools which explore the assembly graph, either manually (Bandage) or automatically (spacegraphcats), but I'm not sure if this is the right approach. After all, if the rRNA genes were linked in the assembly graph to genes that now clearly belong to a bin, they would have been added to that bin...It feels like this is a problem others may have encountered before, so I was wondering if anyone has an idea : )</p>
   2108: <p>I considered mentioning this but considered it implausible. However, apparently people are actually <a href="https://academic.oup.com/bioinformatics/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/bioinformatics/btac398/6609767" rel="nofollow noreferrer">able to use PE shotgun data to link rRNA genes to MAGs</a>.</p>
  <p>This is something that is quite trivial with linked-read or Hi-C data, but I am assuming that you don't have these data (and don't have the desire to go back and generate them). However you presumably have PE shotgun data that you used to generate your MAGs.</p>
  