hurwitzlab/taxoner

Name: taxoner

Owner: Hurwitz Lab

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Created: 2015-08-19 22:25:24.0

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Taxoner 1.4

Publication:

Pongor LS, Vera R, Ligeti B. (2014) Fast and Sensitive Alignment of Microbial Whole Genome Sequencing Reads to Large Sequence Datasets on a Desktop PC: Application to Metagenomic Datasets and Pathogen Identification. PLoS ONE 9(7): e103441.

Taxoner, a simple, parallelizable workflow that uses database partitioning in conjunction with Bowtie2 searches, which allows one to align millions of reads against the full nt database of NCBI, typically in a few hours on a standard four threaded processor.

The program can accept reads of all major platforms (Illumina, Ion Torrent, 454, !PacBio) and the output can be either further analyzed with sophisticated tools such as MEGAN, or directly evaluated by a built-in taxon assignment procedure that also allows the identification of genes and potential functions.

The speed and accuracy of the method compares favorably to other programs and it can run on ordinary desktop or laptop computers without significant loss in speed.

A demo server for testing purposes is available in here


This repository is a customized version for use with the PATRIC database of bacterial genomes (www.patricbrc.org). It also includes the capability to supply extra commands to the bowtie2 program within taxoner (see ./taxoner64v1.4/taxoner64_manual.txt)


This work is supported by the National Institutes of Health's National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, Grant Number U24TR002306. This work is solely the responsibility of the creators and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.