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Table 2 Comparison of applications for metagenome analysis

From: Flexible metagenome analysis using the MGX framework

 

MGX

MG-RAST

IMG/M

EBI Metagenomics

CloVR

CyVerse

Quality control

x

x

x

x

–

x

Taxonomic/functional profiling

x

x

x

x

x

x

Assembly support

–

(x)a

(x)a, b

(x)a

–

x

Charts/visualizations

x

x

x

x

x

–

Custom pipelines

x

–

–

–

–

x

User-provided databases

x

–

–

–

–

x

Fragment recruitment

x

–

–

–

–

–

Free of charge

x

x

x

x

(−)c

x

  1. aSupports analysis of preassembled data
  2. bSubmission restricted to assembled data
  3. cNo cost to run standalone virtual machine, but typical metagenome sizes will require additional compute resources on Amazon EC2
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