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Title: The MG-RAST Metagenomics Database and Portal in 2015

Journal Article · · Nucleic Acids Research
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkv1322· OSTI ID:1249423
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  1. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States)
  2. Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN (United States). School of Electrical & Computer Engineering
  3. Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN (United States). Dept. of Computer Sciences

MG-RAST (http://metagenomics.anl.gov) is an opensubmission data portal for processing, analyzing, sharing and disseminating metagenomic datasets. Currently, the system hosts over 200 000 datasets and is continuously updated. The volume of submissions has increased 4-fold over the past 24 months, now averaging 4 terabasepairs per month. In addition to several new features, we report changes to the analysis workflow and the technologies used to scale the pipeline up to the required throughput levels. Lastly, to show possible uses for the data from MG-RAST, we present several examples integrating data and analyses from MG-RAST into popular third-party analysis tools or sequence alignment tools.

Research Organization:
Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science - Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research; National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-06CH11357; U01HG006537
OSTI ID:
1249423
Journal Information:
Nucleic Acids Research, Vol. 44, Issue D1; ISSN 0305-1048
Publisher:
Oxford University PressCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 112 works
Citation information provided by
Web of Science

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