Taxonomic analysis of metagenomic data with kASA.
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SUBMITTER: Weging S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8266618 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul
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Taxonomic analysis of metagenomic data with kASA.
Weging Silvio S Gogol-Döring Andreas A Grosse Ivo I
Nucleic acids research 20210701 12
The taxonomic analysis of sequencing data has become important in many areas of life sciences. However, currently available tools for that purpose either consume large amounts of RAM or yield insufficient quality and robustness. Here, we present kASA, a k-mer based tool capable of identifying and profiling metagenomic DNA or protein sequences with high computational efficiency and a user-definable memory footprint. We ensure both high sensitivity and precision by using an amino acid-like encodin ...[more]
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