This tutorial explains how to perform taxonomic profiling on your metagenomics samples.
This tutorial explains how to perform the
same profiling from within
Stand-alone vs. MOCAT versions
Both methods perform the same computation. We recommend the stand-alone tool for casual use (with a small number of samples) and MOCAT for intensive use or when you need to change the intermediate steps for your data.
Advantages of the stand-alone version
- Download a single perl file (around 40 MB) which will automatically expand all dependencies.
- Run a single command to execute the whole pipeline.
- Only dependency is a working perl installation and basic utilities (standard with Linux or MAC OS).
Advantages of the MOCAT version
- Flexible option setting.
- Possibility of tweaking all intermediate steps.
- Can make use of computing clusters to distribute your work across many processors.
- All the functionality of MOCAT is available.