mOTUs

The mOTU profiler is a computational tool that estimates relative taxonomic abundance of known and currently unknown microbial community members using metagenomic shotgun sequencing data.

Profile Format

Taxpasta expects a three-column, tab-separated file. This file is generated with the mOTUs parameter -o . It interprets the columns as:

Column Header	Description
consensus_taxonomy
ncbi_tax_id
read_count