DectICO: an alignment-free supervised metagenomic classification method based on feature extraction and dynamic selection.
Journal:
BMC bioinformatics
Published Date:
Oct 7, 2015
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Continual progress in next-generation sequencing allows for generating increasingly large metagenomes which are over time or space. Comparing and classifying the metagenomes with different microbial communities is critical. Alignment-free supervised classification is important for discriminating between the multifarious components of metagenomic samples, because it can be accomplished independently of known microbial genomes.