Taxonnerator

Taxonnerator is a software package for carrying out simple similarity-based annotation of clustered Barcode sequence data produced by jMOTU. It generates taxonomic annotation for MOTU by BLASTing representative sequences against a preformatted database of sequences from known organisms (available from this website). Taxonnerator is useful for initial taxonomic investigation of environmental barcode datasets. For each database sequence showing significant similarity to a MOTU, taxonomic information is stored at all taxonomic levels. This allows the end-user to INVESTigate the taxonomic distribution of the sample sequences at multiple levels. Because data are stored in a relational database, they can be queried using structured query language (SQL) in a very flexible manner, or written to output files for further Analysis.