FlexTaxD: flexible modification of taxonomy databases for improved sequence classification.

Authors :: Sundell D
Öhrman C
Svensson D
Karlsson E
Brindefalk B
Myrtennäs K
Ahlinder J
Antwerpen MH
Walter MC
Forsman M
Stenberg P
Sjödin A
Source :: Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) [Bioinformatics] 2021 Nov 05; Vol. 37 (21), pp. 3932-3933.
Publication Year :: 2021
Abstract: Summary: The Flexible Taxonomy Database framework provides a method for modification and merging official and custom taxonomic databases to create improved databases. Using such databases will increase accuracy and precision of existing methods to classify sequence reads.<br />Availability and Implementation: Source code is freely available at https://github.com/FOI-Bioinformatics/flextaxd and installable through Bioconda.<br /> (© The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oup.com.)

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