Section: New Software and Platforms

Yapotu

Yet Another Pipeline for OTU building

Keywords: Taxonomies - Distance matrices - Clustering - Metagenomics

Functional Description: OTU building is one of the key operation in metabarcoding: how to delimit Operational Taxonomic Units in the "soup" where all amplicons of thousands of unicellular organisms have been lumped together (from visible plankton to nano- and picoplankton, for example). Yapotu is a software tool that enables approaches to unsupervised clustering on very large matrices of distances: each element is a distance between two reads produced by a sequencer. It permits one to select one method among several, like building MultiDimensional Scaling to produce an Euclidean image, and clustering within the point cloud, or building a graph where a node is a sequence and there is an edge if both sequences are at a distance smaller than a given threshold, and then after build connected components or communities on this graph. Other functions visualize the OTUs as clusters or subgraphs.

• Contact: Alain Franc

• URL: https://gitlab.inria.fr/afranc/diodon/tree/master/yapotu