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MetAMOS: a modular and open source metagenomic assembly and analysis pipeline

Todd J Treangen†, Sergey Koren†, Daniel D Sommer, Bo Liu, Irina Astrovskaya, Brian Ondov, Aaron E Darling, Adam M Phillippy and Mihai Pop*

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Genome Biology 2013, 14:R2 doi:10.1186/gb-2013-14-1-r2

Published: 15 January 2013

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We describe MetAMOS, an open source and modular metagenomic assembly and analysis pipeline. MetAMOS represents an important step towards fully automated metagenomic analysis, starting with next-generation sequencing reads and producing genomic scaffolds, open-reading frames and taxonomic or functional annotations. MetAMOS can aid in reducing assembly errors, commonly encountered when assembling metagenomic samples, and improves taxonomic assignment accuracy while also reducing computational cost. MetAMOS can be downloaded from: https://github.com/treangen/MetAMOS.

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