We would like to set up a bioinformatic method to analyse high throughput metagenomics data avoiding the assembly step. Our objective is to get taxonomy and functional information of metagenomics samples.

I open this thread for people to post this kind of tools.

Thanks,

Although some papers have been published, seems this strategy is under development:

Luo, Haiwei, and Mary Ann Moran. "Assembly‐free metagenomic analysis reveals new metabolic capabilities in surface ocean bacterioplankton."Environmental microbiology reports 5.5 (2013): 686-696.

Sunagawa, Shinichi, et al. "Metagenomic species profiling using universal phylogenetic marker genes." Nature methods 10.12 (2013): 1196-1199.