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ABSTRACT: Motivation
Abundance profiling (also called 'phylogenetic profiling') is a crucial step in understanding the diversity of a metagenomic sample, and one of the basic techniques used for this is taxonomic identification of the metagenomic reads.Results
We present taxon identification and phylogenetic profiling (TIPP), a new marker-based taxon identification and abundance profiling method. TIPP combines SAT\'e-enabled phylogenetic placement a phylogenetic placement method, with statistical techniques to control the classification precision and recall, and results in improved abundance profiles. TIPP is highly accurate even in the presence of high indel errors and novel genomes, and matches or improves on previous approaches, including NBC, mOTU, PhymmBL, MetaPhyler and MetaPhlAn.
SUBMITTER: Nguyen NP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4253836 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nguyen Nam-Phuong NP Mirarab Siavash S Liu Bo B Pop Mihai M Warnow Tandy T
Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) 20141029 24
<h4>Motivation</h4>Abundance profiling (also called 'phylogenetic profiling') is a crucial step in understanding the diversity of a metagenomic sample, and one of the basic techniques used for this is taxonomic identification of the metagenomic reads.<h4>Results</h4>We present taxon identification and phylogenetic profiling (TIPP), a new marker-based taxon identification and abundance profiling method. TIPP combines SAT\'e-enabled phylogenetic placement a phylogenetic placement method, with stat ...[more]