Motivation
Taxonomic classification of 16S ribosomal RNA gene amplicon is an efficient and economic approach in microbiome analysis. 16S rRNA sequence databases like SILVA, RDP, EzBioCloud, and HOMD used in downstream bioinformatic pipelines have limitations on either the sequence redundancy or the delay on new sequence recruitment. To improve the 16S rRNA gene-based taxonomic classification, we merged these widely used databases and a collection of novel sequences systemically into an integrated resource.
Results
MetaSquare version 1.0 is an integrated 16S rRNA sequence database. It is composed of more than six million sequences and improves taxonomic classification resolution on both long-read and short-read methods.
Availability
Accessible at https://hub.docker.com/r/lsbnb/metasquare_db and https://github.com/lsbnb/MetaSquare
Supplementary information
Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
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