deFUME: Dynamic exploration of functional metagenomic sequencing data

Eric van der Helm, Henrik Marcus Geertz-Hansen, Hans Jasper Genee, Sailesh Malla, Morten Otto Alexander Sommer

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Abstract

Functional metagenomic selections represent a powerful technique that is widely applied for identification of novel genes from complex metagenomic sources. However, whereas hundreds to thousands of clones can be easily generated and sequenced over a few days of experiments, analyzing the data is time consuming and constitutes a major bottleneck for experimental researchers in the field. Here we present the deFUME web server, an easy-to-use web-based interface for processing, annotation and visualization of functional metagenomics sequencing data, tailored to meet the requirements of non-bioinformaticians. The web-server integrates multiple analysis steps into one single workflow: read assembly, open reading frame prediction, and annotation with BLAST, InterPro and GO classifiers. Analysis results are visualized in an online dynamic web-interface. The deFUME webserver provides a fast track from raw sequence to a comprehensive visual data overview that facilitates effortless inspection of gene function, clustering and distribution. The webserver is available at cbs.dtu.dk/services/deFUME/and the source code is distributed at github.com/EvdH0/deFUME.
Original languageEnglish
JournalBMC Research Notes
Volume8
Issue number328
Pages (from-to)328
Number of pages1
ISSN1756-0500
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2015

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Keywords

  • Functional metagenomics
  • Web services
  • Visualization
  • Sequence analysis
  • Gene ontology

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