Optimizing taxonomic classification of marker-gene amplicon sequences with QIIME 2’s q2-feature-classifier plugin

Abstract Background Taxonomic classification of marker-gene sequences is an important step in microbiome analysis. Results We present q2-feature-classifier (https://github.com/qiime2/q2-feature-classifier), a QIIME 2 plugin containing several novel machine-learning and alignment-based methods for ta...

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Main Authors: Nicholas A. Bokulich, Benjamin D. Kaehler, Jai Ram Rideout, Matthew Dillon, Evan Bolyen, Rob Knight, Gavin A. Huttley, J. Gregory Caporaso
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-05-01
Series:Microbiome
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40168-018-0470-z