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Kaiju

Supported Tool

Fast and sensitive taxonomic classification for metagenomics

Description

The Kaiju module parses output generated by kaiju2table from Kaiju, a fast and sensitive taxonomic classification for metagenomics. e.g:

kaiju -i R1.fq.gz -j R2.fq.gz -o output_kaiju.txt
kaiju2table -t nodes.dmp -n names.dmp -r species -o kaiju2table_species.txt output_kaiju.txt
kaiju2table -t nodes.dmp -n names.dmp -r phylum -o kaiju2table_phylum.txt output_kaiju.txt

File search patterns

kaiju:
  contents_re: file\tpercent\treads\ttaxon_id\ttaxon_name
  num_lines: 1