Fast and sensitive taxonomic assignment to metagenomic contigs

• Published in: Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) Vol. 37; no. 18; pp. 3029 - 3031
• Main Authors: Mirdita, M, Steinegger, M, Breitwieser, F, Söding, J, Levy Karin, E
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Oxford University Press 29.09.2021
• Subjects: Applications Notes; Databases, Factual; Metagenome; Metagenomics; Software

MMseqs2 taxonomy is a new tool to assign taxonomic labels to metagenomic contigs. It extracts all possible protein fragments from each contig, quickly retains those that can contribute to taxonomic annotation, assigns them with robust labels and determines the contig's taxonomic identity by wei...