MARTA: A suite of Java-based tools for assigning taxonomic status to DNA sequences

Matthew Horton, Natacha Bodenhausen, Joy Bergelson

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Abstract

Motivation: We have created a suite of Java-based software to better provide taxonomic assignments to DNA sequences. We anticipate that the program will be useful for protistologists, virologists, mycologists and other microbial ecologists. The program relies on NCBI utilities including the BLAST software and Taxonomy database and is easily manipulated at the command-line to specify a BLAST candidate's query-coverage or percent identity requirements; other options include the ability to set minimal consensus requirements (%) for each of the eight major taxonomic ranks (Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, ...) and whether to consider lower scoring candidates when the top-hit lacks taxonomic classification. Availability: http://bergelson.uchicago.edu/software/marta. Contact: [email protected]; [email protected] Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)568-569
Number of pages2
JournalBioinformatics
Volume26
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 10 2009

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Statistics and Probability
  • Biochemistry
  • Molecular Biology
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Computational Theory and Mathematics
  • Computational Mathematics

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