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metaphlan

Link to section 'Introduction' of 'metaphlan' Introduction

MetaPhlAn (Metagenomic Phylogenetic Analysis) is a computational tool for profiling the composition of microbial communities from metagenomic shotgun sequencing data. MetaPhlAn relies on unique clade-specific marker genes identified from  17,000 reference genomes ( 13,500 bacterial and archaeal,  3,500 viral, and  110 eukaryotic), allowing:

  • up to 25,000 reads-per-second (on one CPU) analysis speed (orders of magnitude faster compared to existing methods);
  • unambiguous taxonomic assignments as the MetaPhlAn markers are clade-specific;
  • accurate estimation of organismal relative abundance (in terms of number of cells rather than fraction of reads);
  • species-level resolution for bacteria, archaea, eukaryotes and viruses;
  • extensive validation of the profiling accuracy on several synthetic datasets and on thousands of real metagenomes.

For more information, please check its user guide at: https://huttenhower.sph.harvard.edu/metaphlan/

Link to section 'Versions' of 'metaphlan' Versions

  • 3.0.14
  • 3.0.9
  • 4.0.2

Commands       
metaphlan

Link to section 'Database' of 'metaphlan' Database

The latest version of database(mpa_v30) has been downloaded and built in /depot/itap/datasets/metaphlan/.

Link to section 'Module' of 'metaphlan' Module

You can load the modules by:

module load biocontainers
module load metaphlan/3.0.14  

Link to section 'Example job' of 'metaphlan' Example job

Using #!/bin/sh -l as shebang in the slurm job script will cause the failure of some biocontainer modules. Please use #!/bin/bash instead.

To run MetaPhlAn on our cluster:

#!/bin/bash
#SBATCH -A myallocation     # Allocation name 
#SBATCH -t 10:00:00
#SBATCH -N 1
#SBATCH -n 24
#SBATCH --job-name=MetaPhlAn
#SBATCH --mail-type=FAIL,BEGIN,END
#SBATCH --error=%x-%J-%u.err
#SBATCH --output=%x-%J-%u.out

module --force purge
ml biocontainers metaphlan/3.0.14

DATABASE=/depot/itap/datasets/metaphlan/
metaphlan SRR11234553_1.fastq,SRR11234553_2.fastq --input_type fastq --nproc 24 -o profiled_metagenome.txt --bowtie2db $DATABASE  --bowtie2out metagenome.bowtie2.bz2
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