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Introduction to the Analysis of Environmental Sequences: Metagenomics with MEGAN


Metagenomics has become a part of the standard toolkit for scientists interested in studying microbes in the environment. Compared to 16S rDNA sequencing, which allows coarse taxonomic profiling of samples, shotgun metagenomic sequencing provides a more detailed analysis of the taxonomic and functional content of samples. Long read technologies, such as developed by Pacific Biosciences or Oxford Nanopore, produce much longer stretches of informative sequence, greatly simplifying the difficult and time-consuming process of metagenomic assembly. MEGAN6 provides a wide range of analysis and visualization methods for the analysis of short and long read metagenomic data. A simple and efficient analysis pipeline for metagenomic analysis consists of the DIAMOND alignment tool on short reads, or the LAST alignment tool on long reads, followed by MEGAN. This approach performs taxonomic and functional abundance analysis, supports comparative analysis of large-scale experiments, and allows one to involve experimental metadata in the analysis.

Authors: Caner Bağcı, Sina Beier, Anna Górska, Daniel H. Huson

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