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characterisation of the taxonomic and functional composition of whole
communities of organisms. Researchers ask questions from metagenomic sequencing
such as 'who is present' (what organisms are present), and 'what are they doing'
(what functions are they performing)? The nature of this field is such that it
(which functions are they performing)? The nature of this field is such that it
intersects with ecology, medicine, statistics, and bioinformatics. Facilitated
by the development of Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS), the field often
generates large datasets consisting of many samples (hundreds) and many
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With TAXPASTA, all of those formats can be converted into a single, standardised
output, that, at a minimum, contains taxonomic identifiers and their relative
sequence abundances as integer counts. It can also be used to aggregate profiles across
abundances as integer counts. It can also be used to aggregate profiles across
samples from the same profiler and merge them into a single, standardised table.
Having a singular format facilitates downstream analyses and comparisons.
TAXPASTA is not the first tool to attempt standardising metagenomic profiles,
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into another format and/or merge multiple profiles into a single table, such as
the Krakentools companion package [@lu_metagenome_2022], these are often focused
on the specific tool or family of tools. Thus, users would have to become
proficient in yet another piece of software per tool or family of tools just for
proficient in yet another piece of software per tool or family of tools for the sake of
consistent output files.

[^8]: <https://github.com/bioboxes/rfc/tree/master/data-format>
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