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Fastest and memory efficient tool for 16S RNA counts

Can anyone suggest me a tool for detecting and quantifying 16S rRNA/rDNA sequences from raw WGS metagenome? I just want to count the number of 16S sequences present in a list of metagenomes quickly. Which software is the fastest nowadays?

16s-rrna metagenome

Hi there,

By raw WGS data, do you mean FastQ file from NGS? Or did you already process your data?

It's Fastq files from NGS.

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What you have, are some pipelines to identify and assign a taxonomy for 16SRNA. For example, QIIME and MOTHUR are the most popular, using USEARCH to realize clustering (which does not matter for you).

I am working on a software for Metagenomic data, and one of the application is what you are looking for. When its ready, I'll post here again! ;)

Another solution for you, If you are fluent with command line, you can use scripts in order to identify the 16S RNA sequence from you data set.

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