MetaCRAM – Lossless Compression Tool for Metagenomic Reads

MetaCRAM

:: DESCRIPTION

MetaCRAM is a pipeline for taxonomy identification and lossless compression of FASTA-format metagenomic reads.  It integrates algorithms for taxonomy identification, read alignment, assembly, and finally, a reference-based compression method in a parallel manner.

::DEVELOPER

MetaCRAM team

:: SCREENSHOTS

N/A

:: REQUIREMENTS

  • Windows/Linux/MacOsX
  • Perl
  • Java

:: DOWNLOAD

  MetaCRAM

:: MORE INFORMATION

Citation

MetaCRAM: an integrated pipeline for metagenomic taxonomy identification and compression.
Kim M, Zhang X, Ligo JG, Farnoud F, Veeravalli VV, Milenkovic O.
BMC Bioinformatics. 2016 Feb 19;17(1):94. doi: 10.1186/s12859-016-0932-x