METABIODIVERSE

METABIODIVERSE is a pipeline of bioinformatics tools designed to identify the organisms present in a community from total DNA.

METABIODIVERSE can be applied to different types of data from next generation sequencing. It was developed to contemplate all the kingdoms, Eukarya, Archaea and Bacteria, and only needs the correct curated database for the identification of the ribosomal DNA specific region (ITS2, D2, V3, V4, V6, )

The biodiversity pipeline was written in python and combines widely used software packages for sequence and phylogenetic analysis, thus allowing a rapid analysis of rDNA projects.

METABIODIVERSE produces several reports along the analysis and a final report with all identified organisms and their respective abundance, allowing for population structure, composition or dynamics studies.