GTDB-Tk

Overview

GTDB-Tk is an open source toolkit providing objective taxonomic classifications for bacterial and archael genomes by assigning them to the Genome Taxonomy Database (GTDB). Its designed to efficiently classify large numbers of metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) from samples.

Availability

Cluster	Module/Version
BOSE	GTDB-Tk/2.4.1
BGSC	Not Available

How To Access

Access to GTDB-Tk is as simple as entering 'module load gtdbtk'

Real Example

Has your research group used gtdbtk in a project? Contact the HPC Team and we'd be glad to feature your work.

Citation

Please include the following citation in your papers to support continued development of gtdbtk.

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, March 2020, Pages 1925–1927, https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btz848

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