FlexTaxD: flexible modification of taxonomy databases for improved sequence classification

David Sundell; Caroline Öhrman; Daniel Svensson; Edvin Karlsson; Björn Brindefalk; Kerstin Myrtennäs; Jon Ahlinder; Markus H Antwerpen; Mathias C Walter; Mats Forsman; Per Stenberg; Andreas Sjödin

doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btab621

FlexTaxD: flexible modification of taxonomy databases for improved sequence classification

Bioinformatics. 2021 Nov 5;37(21):3932-3933. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btab621.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ CBRN Security and Defence, FOI, Swedish Defence Research Agency, Umeå, Sweden.
² Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.
³ Department of Microbial Genomics and Bioinformatics, Bundeswehr Institute of Microbiology, Munich, Germany.

PMID: 34469515
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btab621

Abstract

Summary: The Flexible Taxonomy Database framework provides a method for modification and merging official and custom taxonomic databases to create improved databases. Using such databases will increase accuracy and precision of existing methods to classify sequence reads.

Availability and implementation: Source code is freely available at https://github.com/FOI-Bioinformatics/flextaxd and installable through Bioconda.

MeSH terms

Databases, Factual
Software*