V-Xtractor 2.1 – Extraction of Variable Subregions from SSU or LSU rRNA Sequences

V-Xtractor 2.1

:: DESCRIPTION

V-Xtractor is a Perl-based, high-throughput software tool that locates, verifies, and extracts defined segments of sequence information from sequence datasets. Hidden Markov Models are used to detect the conserved boundaries of the target region and to extract the interjacent sequence information (that is for example the hyper-variable regions of the rRNA gene or the internal transcribed spacer regions of the rRNA operon). This tool extracts phylogenetically comparable regions without prior multiple sequence alignments and improves reliability of the data by confirming basic authenticity of the sequence.

::DEVELOPER

Martin Hartmann

:: SCREENSHOTS

N/A

:: REQUIREMENTS

  • Linux / Windows / MacOsX
  • Perl
  • HMMER

:: DOWNLOAD

  V-Xtractor

:: MORE INFORMATION

Citation:

Hartmann M, Howes CG, Abarenkov K, Mohn WW, Nilsson RH (2010).
V-Xtractor: An open-source, high-throughput software tool to identify and extract hypervariable regions of small subunit (16S/18S) ribosomal RNA gene sequences.
Journal of Microbiological Methods 83(2): 250-253.