MGX 2.0: Shotgun- and assembly-based metagenome and metatranscriptome analysis from a single source

Metagenomics studies have enabled scientists to analyze the genetic information of natural habitats or even complete ecosystems, including otherwise unculturable microbes. The processing of such datasets, however, remains a challenging task requiring extensive computational resources. MGX 2.0 is a versatile solution for the analysis and interpretation of microbial community sequence data. MGX 2.0 supports the processing of raw metagenomes and metatranscriptomes, but also enables assembly-based strategies, including downstream taxonomic binning, bin quality assessment, abundance quantification, and subsequent annotation coming from a single source. Due to the modular design of MGX, users are able to choose from a wide range of different methods for microbial community sequence data analysis, allowing them to directly compare between read-based and assembly-based approaches or to evaluate different strategies to analyze their data.