Combining NCBI and BOLD databases for OTU assignment in metabarcoding and metagenomic data: The BOLD_NCBI _Merger
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- Subject Areas
- Biodiversity, Bioinformatics, Ecology, Molecular Biology, Data Mining and Machine Learning
- Keywords
- Metabarcoding, Metagenomics, Database, Tutorial, Taxonomy, Script, Mitogenomics, Biodiversity
- Copyright
- © 2017 Macher et al.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ Preprints) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
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- 2017. Combining NCBI and BOLD databases for OTU assignment in metabarcoding and metagenomic data: The BOLD_NCBI _Merger. PeerJ Preprints 5:e3133v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.3133v1
Abstract
Metabarcoding and metagenomic approaches are becoming routine techniques in biodiversity assessment and ecological studies. The assignment of taxonomic information to sequences is challenging, as many reference libraries are lacking information on certain taxonomic groups and can contain erroneous sequences. Combining different reference databases is therefore a promising approach for maximizing taxonomic coverage and reliability of results. This tutorial shows how to use the “BOLD_NCBI_Merger” script to combine sequence data obtained from the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) GenBank and the Barcode of Life Database (BOLD) and prepare it for taxonomic assignment with the software MEGAN.
Author Comment
This is a preprint submission to PeerJ Preprints.