ribosort: a program for automated data preparation and exploratory analysis of microbial community fingerprints |
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Authors: | Scallan U Liliensiek A Clipson N Connolly J |
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Affiliation: | Environmental and Ecological Modelling Group, UCD School of Mathematical Sciences, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland, UCD School of Biology and Environmental Science, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland. |
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Abstract: | ribosort is a computer package for convenient editing of automated ribosomal intergenic spacer analysis (ARISA) and terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism (TRFLP) data. It is designed to eliminate the labourious task of manually classifying community fingerprints in microbial ecology studies. This program automatically assigns detected fragments and their respective relative abundances to appropriate ribotypes. It permits simultaneous sorting of multiple profiles and facilitates direct workflow from TRFLP and ARISA output through to community analyses. ribosort also provides several options to merge repeat profiles of a sample into a single composite profile. By creating a 'ribotypes by samples' matrix ready for statistical analyses, use of the package saves time and simplifies the preparation of DNA fingerprint data sets for statistical analysis. In addition, ribosort performs exploratory analysis on the data by creating multidimensional scaling plots that compare the similarity of sample profiles using the statistical software r. |
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Keywords: | ARISA automated data set preparation community fingerprint exploratory analysis multidimensional scaling TRFLP |
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