SortMeRNA

Description

SortMeRNA is a program tool for filtering, mapping and OTU-picking NGS reads in metatranscriptomic and metagenomic data. The core algorithm is based on approximate seeds and allows for fast and sensitive analyses of nucleotide sequences. The main application of SortMeRNA is filtering ribosomal RNA from metatranscriptomic data.

The MultiQC module parses the log files, which are created when SortMeRNA is run with the --log option.

The default header in the ‘General Statistics’ table is ’% rRNA’. Users can override this using the configuration option:

sortmerna:
  tab_header: "My database hits"

File search patterns

sortmerna:
  contents: Minimal SW score based on E-value