Matthew R. Dillon

Optimizing taxonomic classification of marker-gene amplicon sequences with QIIME 2’s q2-feature-classifier plugin

2018 · Microbiome

BACKGROUND: Taxonomic classification of marker-gene sequences is an important step in microbiome analysis. RESULTS: We present q2-feature-classifier ( https://github.com/qiime2/q2-feature-classifier ), a QIIME 2 plugin containing several novel machine-learning and alignment-based methods for taxonomy classification. We …