SILVA, RDP, Greengenes, NCBI and OTT - how do these taxonomies compare?
Journal:
BMC genomics
Published Date:
Mar 14, 2017
Abstract
BACKGROUND: A key step in microbiome sequencing analysis is read assignment to taxonomic units. This is often performed using one of four taxonomic classifications, namely SILVA, RDP, Greengenes or NCBI. It is unclear how similar these are and how to compare analysis results that are based on different taxonomies.