Reads2Type: a web application for rapid microbial taxonomy identification.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Identification of bacteria may be based on sequencing and molecular analysis of a specific locus such as 16S rRNA, or a set of loci such as in multilocus sequence typing. In the near future, healthcare institutions and routine diagnostic microbiology laboratories may need to sequence the entire genome of microbial isolates. Therefore we have developed Reads2Type, a web-based tool for taxonomy identification based on whole bacterial genome sequence data.

Results

Raw sequencing data provided by the user are mapped against a set of marker probes that are derived from currently available bacteria complete genomes. Using a dataset of 1003 whole genome sequenced bacteria from various sequencing platforms, Reads2Type was able to identify the species with 99.5 % accuracy

SUBMITTER: Saputra D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4659212 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature