Apps

1. Annotate Assembly and Re-annotate Genomes with Prokka - v1.14.5
   • Seemann T. Prokka: rapid prokaryotic genome annotation. Bioinformatics. 2014;30: 2068 2069. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btu153
2. Annotate Genome/Assembly with RASTtk - v1.073
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3. Annotate Metagenome Assembly with Prokka - v1.14.5
   • Seemann T. Prokka: rapid prokaryotic genome annotation. Bioinformatics. 2014;30: 2068 2069. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btu153
4. Assemble Long Reads with Flye - v2.9.4
   • [1] Mikhail Kolmogorov, Jeffrey Yuan, Yu Lin and Pavel Pevzner, "Assembly of Long Error-Prone Reads Using Repeat Graphs", Nature Biotechnology, 2019 doi:10.1038/s41587-019-0072-8
5. Assess Genome Quality with CheckM - v1.0.18
   • Parks DH, Imelfort M, Skennerton CT, Hugenholtz P, Tyson GW. CheckM: assessing the quality of microbial genomes recovered from isolates, single cells, and metagenomes. Genome Res. 2015;25: 1043 1055. doi:10.1101/gr.186072.114
   • CheckM source:
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6. Bin Contigs using MaxBin2 - v2.2.4
   • Wu Y-W, Simmons BA, Singer SW. MaxBin 2.0: an automated binning algorithm to recover genomes from multiple metagenomic datasets. Bioinformatics. 2016;32: 605 607. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btv638 (2) 1. Wu Y-W, Tang Y-H, Tringe SG, Simmons BA, Singer SW. MaxBin: an automated binning method to recover individual genomes from metagenomes using an expectation-maximization algorithm. Microbiome. 2014;2: 26. doi:10.1186/2049-2618-2-26
   • Wu Y-W, Tang Y-H, Tringe SG, Simmons BA, Singer SW. MaxBin: an automated binning method to recover individual genomes from metagenomes using an expectation-maximization algorithm. Microbiome. 2014;2: 26. doi:10.1186/2049-2618-2-26
   • Maxbin2 source:
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7. Build GenomeSet - v1.7.6
   • Chivian D, Jungbluth SP, Dehal PS, Wood-Charlson EM, Canon RS, Allen BH, Clark MM, Gu T, Land ML, Price GA, Riehl WJ, Sneddon MW, Sutormin R, Zhang Q, Cottingham RW, Henry CS, Arkin AP. Metagenome-assembled genome extraction and analysis from microbiomes using KBase. Nat Protoc. 2023 Jan;18(1):208-238. doi: 10.1038/s41596-022-00747-x
   • Arkin AP, Cottingham RW, Henry CS, Harris NL, Stevens RL, Maslov S, et al. KBase: The United States Department of Energy Systems Biology Knowledgebase. Nature Biotechnology. 2018;36: 566. doi: 10.1038/nbt.4163
8. Classify Microbes with GTDB-Tk - v2.3.2
   • Pierre-Alain Chaumeil, Aaron J Mussig, Philip Hugenholtz, Donovan H Parks. GTDB-Tk v2: memory friendly classification with the genome taxonomy database. Bioinformatics, Volume 38, Issue 23, 1 December 2022, Pages 5315 5316. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btac672
   • Pierre-Alain Chaumeil, Aaron J Mussig, Philip Hugenholtz, Donovan H Parks, GTDB-Tk: a toolkit to classify genomes with the Genome Taxonomy Database, Bioinformatics, Volume 36, Issue 6, 15 March 2020, Pages 1925 1927. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btz848
   • Donovan H Parks, Maria Chuvochina, Christian Rinke, Aaron J Mussig, Pierre-Alain Chaumeil, Philip Hugenholtz. GTDB: an ongoing census of bacterial and archaeal diversity through a phylogenetically consistent, rank normalized and complete genome-based taxonomy. Nucleic Acids Research, Volume 50, Issue D1, 7 January 2022, Pages D785 D794. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkab776
   • Parks, D., Chuvochina, M., Waite, D. et al. A standardized bacterial taxonomy based on genome phylogeny substantially revises the tree of life. Nat Biotechnol 36, 996 1004 (2018). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.4229
   • Parks DH, Chuvochina M, Chaumeil PA, Rinke C, Mussig AJ, Hugenholtz P. A complete domain-to-species taxonomy for Bacteria and Archaea. Nat Biotechnol. 2020;10.1038/s41587-020-0501-8. DOI:10.1038/s41587-020-0501-8
   • Rinke C, Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Dav n AA, Waite DW, Whitman WB, Parks DH, and Hugenholtz P. A standardized archaeal taxonomy for the Genome Taxonomy Database. Nat Microbiol. 2021 Jul;6(7):946-959. DOI:10.1038/s41564-021-00918-8
   • Chivian D, Jungbluth SP, Dehal PS, Wood-Charlson EM, Canon RS, Allen BH, Clark MM, Gu T, Land ML, Price GA, Riehl WJ, Sneddon MW, Sutormin R, Zhang Q, Cottingham RW, Henry CS, Arkin AP. Metagenome-assembled genome extraction and analysis from microbiomes using KBase. Nat Protoc. 2023 Jan;18(1):208-238. doi: 10.1038/s41596-022-00747-x
   • Matsen FA, Kodner RB, Armbrust EV. pplacer: linear time maximum-likelihood and Bayesian phylogenetic placement of sequences onto a fixed reference tree. BMC Bioinformatics. 2010;11:538. Published 2010 Oct 30. doi:10.1186/1471-2105-11-538
   • Jain C, Rodriguez-R LM, Phillippy AM, Konstantinidis KT, Aluru S. High throughput ANI analysis of 90K prokaryotic genomes reveals clear species boundaries. Nat Commun. 2018;9(1):5114. Published 2018 Nov 30. DOI:10.1038/s41467-018-07641-9
   • Hyatt D, Chen GL, Locascio PF, Land ML, Larimer FW, Hauser LJ. Prodigal: prokaryotic gene recognition and translation initiation site identification. BMC Bioinformatics. 2010;11:119. Published 2010 Mar 8. DOI:10.1186/1471-2105-11-119
   • Price MN, Dehal PS, Arkin AP. FastTree 2--approximately maximum-likelihood trees for large alignments. PLoS One. 2010;5(3):e9490. Published 2010 Mar 10. DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0009490 link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2835736/
   • Eddy SR. Accelerated Profile HMM Searches. PLoS Comput Biol. 2011;7(10):e1002195. DOI:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002195
   • Ondov BD, Treangen TJ, Melsted P, Mallonee AB, Bergman NH, Koren S, Phillippy AM. Mash: fast genome and metagenome distance estimation using MinHash. Genome Biol. 2016 Jun 20;17(1):132. DOI: 10.1186/s13059-016-0997-x
9. Classify Taxonomy of Metagenomic Reads with GOTTCHA2 - v2.1.7
   • Tracey Allen K. Freitas, Po-E Li, Matthew B. Scholz and Patrick S. G. Chain (2015) Accurate read-based metagenome characterization using a hierarchical suite of unique signatures, Nucleic Acids Research (DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkv180)
   • GOTTCHA2 DBs from:
   • Krona homepage:
   • Github for Krona:
10. Classify Taxonomy of Metagenomic Reads with Kaiju - v1.9.0
    • Chivian D, et al. Metagenome-assembled genome extraction and analysis from microbiomes using KBase. Nat Protoc. 2023 Jan;18(1):208-238. doi: 10.1038/s41596-022-00747-x
    • Menzel P, Ng KL, Krogh A. Fast and sensitive taxonomic classification for metagenomics with Kaiju. Nat Commun. 2016;7: 11257. doi:10.1038/ncomms11257
    • Ondov BD, Bergman NH, Phillippy AM. Interactive metagenomic visualization in a Web browser. BMC Bioinformatics. 2011;12: 385. doi:10.1186/1471-2105-12-385
    • Kaiju Homepage:
    • Kaiju DBs from:
    • Github for Kaiju:
    • Krona homepage:
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11. Extract Bins as Assemblies from BinnedContigs - v1.0.2
    • Arkin AP, Cottingham RW, Henry CS, Harris NL, Stevens RL, Maslov S, et al. KBase: The United States Department of Energy Systems Biology Knowledgebase. Nature Biotechnology. 2018;36: 566. doi: 10.1038/nbt.4163
12. Filter Bins by Quality with CheckM - v1.0.18
    • Parks DH, Imelfort M, Skennerton CT, Hugenholtz P, Tyson GW. CheckM: assessing the quality of microbial genomes recovered from isolates, single cells, and metagenomes. Genome Res. 2015;25: 1043 1055. doi:10.1101/gr.186072.114
    • CheckM source:
    • Additional info:
13. Insert Genome Into SpeciesTree - v2.2.0
    • Price MN, Dehal PS, Arkin AP. FastTree 2 Approximately Maximum-Likelihood Trees for Large Alignments. PLoS One. 2010;5. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0009490