efastats command

Example

muscle -efastats diversified_ensemble.efa -log efastats.log

Description

The efastats command reports miscellaneous information about the MSAs stored in ensemble FASTA (EFA) format.

120,000 new RNA virus species discovered by mining the SRA (paper).

Syncmers are better than minimizers (paper).

Video talks on 16S data analysis posted.

URMAP ultra-fast read mapper (paper).

~20% of taxonomy annotations in SILVA and Greengenes are wrong (paper).

Taxonomy prediction is <50% accurate for 16S V4 sequences (paper).

97% OTU threshold is wrong for species, should be 99% for full-length 16S, 100% V4 (paper).