FCP
The fragment classification package (FCP) provides a number of classifiers for assigning query fragments to their source genome:
Naive Bayes (NB): a composition-based, rank-specific classifier BLASTN: a homology-based, rank-specific classifier NB-BL: a hybrid, rank-specific classifier combining NB and BLASTN
Epsilon-NB (epsilon-NB): a composition-based, rank-flexible classifier Lowest common ancestor (LCA): a homology-based, rank-flexible classifier LCA + epsilon-NB: a hybrid, rank-flexible classifier combining LCA and epsilon-NB
License
This software is released under the GNU General Public License v3.0.
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Contact Information
The FCP 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.
Citing the FCP
If you find this software helpful in your research, please cite:
Parks, D.H., MacDonald, N.J., and Beiko, R.G. (2010). Classify short genomic fragments from unrepresented lineages using composition and homology. (Submitted to ISMB, 2011)
Funding
The development and deployment of this software has been supported by several organizations:
- Killam Trusts
- Genome Atlantic
- The Dalhousie Centre for Comparative Genomics and Evolutionary Bioinformatics, and the Tula Foundation
- The Dalhousie Faculty of Computer Science
