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mkLTG: a command-line tool for taxonomic assignment of metabarcoding sequences using variable identity thresholds

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Metabarcoding is now a widely used method for biodiversity studies. Taxonomic assignment of environmental sequences is one of the key steps of metabarcoding. Assignments based on Lowest Common Ancestor (LCA) method generally rely on fixed arbitrary thresholds, and this is generally not well adapted for assignment of taxonomically diverse groups with variable coverage in reference databases. The mkLTG is a LCA based method that uses a series of percentage of identity thresholds starting from stringent parameters and decreasing it if necessary. All parameters can be set separately for each percentage of identity threshold, which makes this tool adaptable for different databases, genetic markers and diverse taxonomic groups. The optimization step was included using the COI marker and a comprehensive, non-redundant database. The mkLTG tool is a command-line application with few dependencies that runs in all operating systems, therefore it is easy to include into complex pipelines. All scripts are freely available including the benchmarking at https://github.com/meglecz/mkLTG.
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hal-04434060 , version 1 (02-02-2024)

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Emese Meglécz. mkLTG: a command-line tool for taxonomic assignment of metabarcoding sequences using variable identity thresholds. Biologia Futura, In press, ⟨10.1007/s42977-024-00201-x⟩. ⟨hal-04434060⟩
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