Introducing mothur: Open-Source, Platform-Independent, Community-Supported Software for Describing and Comparing Microbial Communities

D. Schloss, Patrick; L. Westcott, Sarah; Ryabin, Thomas; R. Hall, Justine; Hartmann, Martin; B. Hollister, Emily; A. Lesniewski, Ryan; B. Oakley, Brian; H. Parks, Donovan; J. Robinson, Courtney; W. Sahl, Jason; Stres, Blaž; Thallinger, Gerhard; J. Horn, David; F. Weber, Carolyn

doi:10.1128/aem.01541-09

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Introducing mothur: Open-Source, Platform-Independent, Community-Supported Software for Describing and Comparing Microbial Communities

Published in Applied and Environmental Microbiology • Oct 3, 2009

Authors:

Patrick D. Schloss

Sarah L. Westcott

Thomas Ryabin

Abstract

mothur aims to be a comprehensive software package that allows users to use a single piece of software to analyze community sequence data. It builds upon previous tools to provide a flexible and powerful software package for analyzing sequencing data. As a case study, we used mothur to trim, screen,...

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Laptop

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Pyrosequencing

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