metaX

The software tool 'metaX' is designed to identify the origin of small subunit ribosomal RNA (SSU rRNA) gene sequences in environmental sequencing datasets. The tool can extract full-length and partial SSU sequences from larger datasets and assign them to an archaeal, bacterial, nuclear eukaryote, mitochondrial, or chloroplast origin. 'metaX' uses reference databases and full-length organelle and organism genomes to detect and score SSU sequences with high accuracy, making it useful in microbial and evolutionary ecology as well as in metagenomics.