Metacoder

Metacoder is a software tool to plot and manage large taxonomic datasets. The Metacoder algorithm includes functions to plot heat trees, sum counts for each taxon, proportional counts, rarefaction counts, abundance counts, coalesce group sample data, PCR simulation, and data format conversion.

Topic

Phylogeny;Taxonomy;Data visualisation

Detail

  • Operation: Phylogenetic tree visualisation;Phylogenetic tree generation

  • Software interface: Library

  • Language: R,C++

  • License: The MIT License

  • Cost: Free

  • Version name: 0.3.5

  • Credit: USDA ARS CRIS Project, the USDA ARS Floriculture Nursery Research Initiativ, National Sciences Foundation (NSF).

  • Input: -

  • Output: -

  • Contact: Niklaus J. Grünwald nik.grunwald@ars.usda.gov

  • Collection: -

  • Maturity: Mature

Publications

  • Metacoder: An R package for visualization and manipulation of community taxonomic diversity data.
  • Foster ZS, Sharpton TJ, Grünwald NJ. Metacoder: An R package for visualization and manipulation of community taxonomic diversity data. PLoS Comput Biol. 2017 Feb 21;13(2):e1005404. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005404. PMID: 28222096; PMCID: PMC5340466.
  • https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005404
  • PMID: 28222096
  • PMC: PMC5340466

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