PhyloToAST: Bioinformatics tools for species-level analysis and visualization of complex microbial communities
Year: 2015
Type: other
Abstract: The PhyloToAST project is a collection of python code and executable scripts that modify the QIIME pipeline by adding/changing several steps including: support for cluster-computing, multiple primer support (eliminate primer bias), enhanced support for species-specific analysis, and additional visualization tools, as well as a wide variety of convenience scripts for transforming and filtering data at all stages of the 16S analysis pipeline. In addition, PhyloToAST provides an API for developers with many useful tools for parsing and manipulating files produced in the analysis pipeline. PhyloToAST itself relies on this code and it is meant to be used and extended by developers in the process of developing their own toolsets. PhyloToAST is available free and open source (MIT) on GitHub: https://github.com/smdabdoub/phylotoast with documentation available at: http://phylotoast.readthedocs.org/
Authors: Shareef Dabdoub, Purnima Kumar
Institution: The Ohio State University
Language: English
Subfield: Molecular Biology
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: gold
OpenAlex ID: W2409226965