February 21, 2017
Journal Article

MerCat: a versatile k-mer counter and diversity estimator for database-independent property analysis obtained from metagenomic and/or metatranscriptomic sequencing data

Abstract

MerCat is a parallel, highly scalable and modular property software package for robust analysis of features in next-generation sequencing data. MerCat inputs include assembled contigs and raw sequence reads from any platform resulting in feature abundance counts tables. MerCat allows for direct analysis of data properties without reference sequence database dependency commonly used by search tools such as BLAST and/or DIAMOND for compositional analysis of whole community shotgun sequencing (e.g. metagenomes and metatranscriptomes).

Revised: May 22, 2017 | Published: February 21, 2017

Citation

White R.A., A.R. Panyala, K.A. Glass, S.M. Colby, K.R. Glaesemann, G.C. Jansson, and J.K. Jansson. 2017. MerCat: a versatile k-mer counter and diversity estimator for database-independent property analysis obtained from metagenomic and/or metatranscriptomic sequencing data. PeerJ Preprints 5, no. 2167-9843:Article No. e2825v1. PNNL-SA-124860. doi:10.7287/peerj.preprints.2825v1