CONSTAX

CONSTAX is a Python tool for taxonomic classification of fungal sequences that compares three common fungal OTU taxonomic assignment tools (RDP Classifier, UTAX, and SINTAX) and merges them into an improved consensus taxonomy. The tool also produces summary classification outputs useful for downstream analysis. The study showed that independent taxonomy assignment tools classify unique members of the fungal community and greater classification power is realized by generating consensus taxonomy of available classifiers with CONSTAX.

Topic

Taxonomy

Detail

  • Operation: Taxonomic classification

  • Software interface: Command-line user interface

  • Language: R;Python

  • License: MIT license

  • Cost: Free

  • Version name: v2.0.19

  • Credit: MSU Plant Science Fellowship, the Michigan Wheat Program, AgBioResearch, NSF BEACON, the US National Science Foundation (NSF).

  • Input: -

  • Output: -

  • Contact: benucci@msu.edu

  • Collection: -

  • Maturity: Mature

Publications

  • CONSTAX: a tool for improved taxonomic resolution of environmental fungal ITS sequences.
  • Gdanetz K, et al. CONSTAX: a tool for improved taxonomic resolution of environmental fungal ITS sequences. CONSTAX: a tool for improved taxonomic resolution of environmental fungal ITS sequences. 2017; 18:538. doi: 10.1186/s12859-017-1952-x
  • https://doi.org/10.1186/s12859-017-1952-x
  • PMID: 29212440
  • PMC: PMC5719527

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