GroopM 0.3.0

Metagenomic binning suite

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Overview
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GroopM is a metagenomic binning toolset. It leverages spatio-temoral
dynamics (differential coverage) to accurately (and almost automatically)
extract population genomes from multi-sample metagenomic datasets.

GroopM is largely parameter-free. Use: groopm -h for more info.

For installation and usage instructions see : http://minillinim.github.io/GroopM/

Data preparation and running GroopM
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Before running GroopM you need to prep your data. A typical workflow looks like this:

1. Produce NGS data for your environment across mutiple (3+) samples (spearated spatially or temporally or both).
2. Co-assemble your reads using Velvet or similar.
3. For each sample, map the reads against the co-assembly. GroopM needs sorted indexed bam files. If you have 3 samples then you will produce 3 bam files. I use BWA / Samtools for this.
4. Take your co-assembled contigs and bam files and load them into GroopM using 'groopm parse' saveName contigs.fa bam1.bam bam2.bam...
5. Keep following the GroopM workflow. See: groopm -h for more info.

Licence and referencing
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Project home page, info on the source tree, documentation, issues and how to contribute, see http://github.com/minillinim/GroopM

If you use this software then we'd love you to cite us.
Our paper is now available as a preprint at https://peerj.com/articles/603. The DOI is http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.603

Copyright © 2012-2014 Michael Imelfort.

GroopM is licensed under the GNU GPL v3
See LICENSE.txt for further details.