Complete pipeline for Oxford Nanopore Technology amplicon sequencing (ONT-AmpSeq): from pre-processing to creating an operational taxonomic unit table.

ABSTRACT: Amplicon sequencing has long served as a robust method for characterising microbial communities, and despite inherent resolution limitations, it remains a preferred technique, offering cost- and time-effective insights into bacterial compositions. Here, we introduce ONT-AmpSeq, a user-friendly pipeline designed for processing amplicon sequencing data generated from Oxford Nanopore Technology (ONT) devices. Our pipeline enables efficient creation of taxonomically annotated operational taxonomic unit (OTU) tables from ONT sequencing data, with the flexibility to multiplex amplicons on the same barcode. The pipeline encompasses six main steps-statistics, quality filtering, alignment, clustering, polishing, and taxonomic classification-integrating various state-of-the-art software tools. We pr

SUBMITTER: Schacksen PS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11532972 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature