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GTDB-Tk v2: memory friendly classification with the genome taxonomy database

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Chaumeil, Pierre-Alain, Mussig, Aaron J, Hugenholtz, Philip, Parks, Donovan H·2022·Bioinformatics

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Summary: The Genome Taxonomy Database (GTDB) and associated taxonomic classification toolkit (GTDB-Tk) have been widely adopted by the microbiology community. However, the growing size of the GTDB bacterial reference tree has resulted in GTDB-Tk requiring substantial amounts of memory (∼320 GB) which limits its adoption and ease of use. Here, we present an update to GTDB-Tk that uses a divide-and-conquer approach where user genomes are initially placed into a bacterial reference tree with family-level representatives followed by placement into an appropriate class-level subtree comprising species representatives. This substantially reduces the memory requirements of GTDB-Tk while having minimal impact on classification. Availability and implementation: GTDB-Tk is implemented in Python and licenced under the GNU General Public Licence v3.0. Source code and documentation are available at: https://github.com/ecogenomics/gtdbtk. Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

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Authors
Chaumeil, P.-A., Mussig, A. J., Hugenholtz, P., & Parks, D. H.
Venue
Bioinformatics
Published
2022-10-11
Volume
38
Issue
23
Pages
5315-5316
ISSN
  • 1367-4803 (ISSN-L)
  • 1367-4811
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journal article
Language
en
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Chaumeil, P.-A., Mussig, A. J., Hugenholtz, P., & Parks, D. H. (2022). GTDB-Tk v2: memory friendly classification with the genome taxonomy database. Bioinformatics. https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btac672

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