IMP: a pipeline for reproducible reference-independent integrated metagenomic and metatranscriptomic analyses.
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SUBMITTER: Narayanasamy S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5159968 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec
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IMP: a pipeline for reproducible reference-independent integrated metagenomic and metatranscriptomic analyses.
Narayanasamy Shaman S Jarosz Yohan Y Muller Emilie E L EE Heintz-Buschart Anna A Herold Malte M Kaysen Anne A Laczny Cédric C CC Pinel Nicolás N May Patrick P Wilmes Paul P
Genome biology 20161216 1
Existing workflows for the analysis of multi-omic microbiome datasets are lab-specific and often result in sub-optimal data usage. Here we present IMP, a reproducible and modular pipeline for the integrated and reference-independent analysis of coupled metagenomic and metatranscriptomic data. IMP incorporates robust read preprocessing, iterative co-assembly, analyses of microbial community structure and function, automated binning, as well as genomic signature-based visualizations. The IMP-based ...[more]
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