PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Bengtsson-Palme, Johan AU - Richardson, Rodney T. AU - Meola, Marco AU - Wurzbacher, Christian AU - Tremblay, Émilie D. AU - Thorell, Kaisa AU - Kanger, Kärt AU - Eriksson, K. Martin AU - Bilodeau, Guillaume J. AU - Johnson, Reed M. AU - Hartmann, Martin AU - Nilsson, R. Henrik TI - Taxonomic identification from metagenomic and metabarcoding data using any genetic marker AID - 10.1101/253377 DP - 2018 Jan 01 TA - bioRxiv PG - 253377 4099 - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2018/01/27/253377.short 4100 - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2018/01/27/253377.full AB - Correct taxonomic identification of DNA sequences is central to studies of biodiversity using both shotgun metagenomic and metabarcoding approaches. However, there is no genetic marker that gives sufficient performance across all the biological kingdoms, hampering studies of taxonomic diversity in many groups of organisms. We here present a major update to Metaxa2 (http://microbiology.se/software/metaxa2/) that enables the use of any genetic marker for taxonomic classification of metagenome and amplicon sequence data.