eggNOG/eggNOG-mapper
eggNOGDB is a database for orthology functional annotations, eggnog-mapper is a tool based on eggNOGDB for fast genome-wide functional annotation through orthology assignment.
Basic Information
| Repository | https://github.com/eggnogdb/eggnog-mapper |
| Documentation | https://github.com/eggnogdb/eggnog-mapper |
| Seminar | Jaime Huerta presents the tool ETE Toolkit, eggNOG, eggNOG-mapper |
| Main publication (DOI) |
10.1093/nar/gky1085
view 10.1093/molbev/msab293 view |
| Contact email | jhcepas@gmail.com |
| Authors/Maintainers | Jaime Huerta Cepas |
| Type of application | Web-service, Command line pipeline, Database / repository |
| Programming languages | PythonJavaScript |
| Keywords | Omics, Computational Methods, Resources, Genomics, Functional genomics, Functional annotation, Function prediction, Bioinformatics Infrastructure, Biological Databases, Genomic Annotation, Molecular evolution, Phylogenetic Analysis, Pathway analysis |
Technical details
| Input file formats | fasta, Other |
| Output file formats | tsv |
| Software compatibility | Linux, Mac, Windows |
| Hardware requirements | At least 4CPUs and 8Gb RAM |
| Type of containerization | Conda |
| Wrapper type | None |
| Compatible tools | STRING-DB |
| Funding resource | No funding |
| Funding support | No funding |
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