MetAMOS: a modular and open source metagenomic assembly and analysis pipeline

TitleMetAMOS: a modular and open source metagenomic assembly and analysis pipeline
Publication TypeJournal Articles
Year of Publication2013
AuthorsTreangen T, Koren S., Sommer D.D, Liu B., Astrovskaya I, Ondov B., Darling A.E, Phillippy A.M, Pop M.
JournalGenome BiolGenome Biol
Volume14
Type of Article10.1186/gb-2013-14-1-r2
ISBN Number1465-6914 (Electronic)1465-6906 (Linking)
Abstract

ABSTRACT: We describe MetAMOS, an open source and modular metagenomic assembly and analysis pipeline. MetAMOS represents an important step towards fully automated metagenomic analysis, starting with next-generation sequencing reads and producing genomic scaffolds, open-reading frames and taxonomic or functional annotations. MetAMOS can aid in reducing assembly errors, commonly encountered when assembling metagenomic samples, and improves taxonomic assignment accuracy while also reducing computational cost. MetAMOS can be downloaded from: https://github.com/treangen/MetAMOS.