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Metaxa2

Description

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Metaxa2 is a software tool for automated detection and discrimination among ribosomal small subunit (12S/16S/18S) sequences of archaea, bacteria, eukaryotes, mitochondria, and chloroplasts in metagenomes and environmental sequencing datasets.

Environment Modules

Run module spider metaxa2 to find out what environment modules are available for this application.

Environment Variables

  • HPC_METAXA2_DIR - installation directory

Citation

If you publish research that uses metaxa2 you have to cite it as follows:

Bengtsson-Palme, J., Hartmann, M., Eriksson, K. M., Pal, C., Thorell, K., Larsson, D. G. J., & Nilsson, R. H. (2015). Metaxa2: Improved identification and taxonomic classification of small and large subunit rRNA in metagenomic data. Molecular Ecology Resources, 15(6), 1403–1414. https://doi.org/10.1111/1755-0998.12399

Categories

biology, ngs, sequencing