GTDB-Tk: a toolkit to classify genomes with the Genome Taxonomy Database

Abstract Summary The Genome Taxonomy Database Toolkit (GTDB-Tk) provides objective taxonomic assignments for bacterial and archaeal genomes based on the GTDB. GTDB-Tk is computationally efficient and able to classify thousands of draft genomes in parallel. Here we demonstrate the accuracy of the GTD...

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Published in:Bioinformatics 2019-11, Vol.36 (6), p.1925-1927
Main Authors: Chaumeil, Pierre-Alain, Mussig, Aaron J, Hugenholtz, Philip, Parks, Donovan H
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Language:English
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Summary:Abstract Summary The Genome Taxonomy Database Toolkit (GTDB-Tk) provides objective taxonomic assignments for bacterial and archaeal genomes based on the GTDB. GTDB-Tk is computationally efficient and able to classify thousands of draft genomes in parallel. Here we demonstrate the accuracy of the GTDB-Tk taxonomic assignments by evaluating its performance on a phylogenetically diverse set of 10 156 bacterial and archaeal metagenome-assembled genomes. Availability and implementation GTDB-Tk is implemented in Python and licenced under the GNU General Public Licence v3.0. Source code and documentation are available at: https://github.com/ecogenomics/gtdbtk. Supplementary information Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
ISSN:1367-4803
1460-2059
1367-4811
DOI:10.1093/bioinformatics/btz848