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Jose Manuel Martí edited this page Dec 27, 2018 · 30 revisions

Welcome to the Recentrifuge wiki!

What?

With Recentrifuge, researchers can analyze results from Centrifuge, LMAT, CLARK, Kraken, and other taxonomic classifiers using interactive charts with emphasis on the confidence level of the classifications. In addition to contamination-subtracted samples, Recentrifuge provides shared and exclusive taxa per sample, thus enabling robust contamination removal and comparative analysis in metagenomics.

How?

Recentrifuge's novel approach combines robust statistics, arithmetic of scored taxonomic trees, and parallel computational algorithms. The software implements a robust method for the removal of negative-control and crossover taxa from the rest of samples.

Is it for me?

Researchers use Recentrifuge to analyze very diverse metagenomic datasets. However, it is especially useful in the case of low microbial biomass metagenomic studies and when a more reliable detection of minority organisms is needed, like in clinical, environmental and forensic analysis.

Installation and running instructions

Advanced topics

  • For a comprehensive guide to the Recentrifuge options and flags, please check the Recentrifuge command line.
  • For instructions about how to run the sequence extractor, please see running Rextract.
  • For details about testing the different parts of the package, please enter testing.

This wiki also contains pages with some tips and tricks about Centrifuge:


To play with an example of webpage generated by Recentrifuge, click on the screenshot:

Recentrifuge test screenshot

Recentrifuge webpage example