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GTDB-Tk

GTDB-Tk assigns objective taxonomic classifications to bacterial and archaeal genomes based on the Genome Database Taxonomy. The bundle packages version 2.4.1.

Usage example

The following command can be executed in the terminal to load the bundle:

module load gtdbtk

The module makes the gtdbtk and download-db.sh commands available. The gtdbtk_shell command can be used to access a shell in the bundle.

Run pet list -t gtdbtk for a list of examples.

Performance notes

No performance notes available

GTDB-Tk should be run on a system with at least 128 GB of RAM and 8 threads. The minimum memory is taken from Resource usage optimization question and minimum threads from GTDB-Tk performance

Benchmarks

No benchmarks available.

Community guides and tutorials

  • No community guides available.

Official site and documentation

Licensing information

GTDB-Tk is licensed under the GPLv3 license.

Primary citation

GTDB-Tk v2: memory friendly classification with the genome taxonomy database Open Access Pierre-Alain Chaumeil , Aaron J Mussig , Philip Hugenholtz , Donovan H Parks Bioinformatics, Volume 38, Issue 23, 1 December 2022, Pages 5315–5316, doi

External guides and resources

  • If you know of a guide/tutorial that you have found useful, please help us share it by contacting the HPC staff at hpc@ufs.ac.za