SPANNER
SPANNER (Simularity Profile ANNotatER) extends LCA to perform supervised homology-based taxonomic classification of metagenomic fragments.
License
This software is released under the GNU General Public License v3.0.
Obtaining the Software
SPANNER is available as a gzipped tarball, supported on *nix systems (Linux, Unix, Mac).
After downloading, uncompress the file and follow the installation instructions in the INSTALL.txt file. Additional instructions are located in the README.txt and MANUAL.txt files. To install the FCP under OS X, gcc must be installed which is available as part of the Mac Developer Tools.
Citing SPANNER
If you find this software helpful in your research, please cite:
- Porter, M.S., Beiko, R.G. SPANNER: Taxonomic assignment of sequences using pyramid matching of similarity profiles. Submitted to BMC Bioinformatics.
Contact Information
SPANNER is in active development and we are interested in discussing all potential applications of this software. We encourage you to send us suggestions for new features. Suggestions, comments, and bug reports can be sent to Rob Beiko (beiko [at] cs.dal.ca). If reporting a bug, please provide as much information as possible and a simplified version of the data set which causes the bug. This will allow us to quickly resolve the issue.
Version History
v1.0.0 (December 17, 2012)
- initial software release.
Funding
The development of this software has been supported by several organizations:
- Genome Atlantic
- The Canadian Foundation for Innovation
- Genome Canada
- Ontario Genomics Institute
