Overview

Overview

About

General informations about features, how to cite, demo projects, funding and additional links.

Install MGX

Needed prerequisites, Java JDK Version 17, Supported operating systems and obtaining MGX.

Basics

Obtaining a Project, MGX Roles, metadata, Connect to a server, uploading own files, importing reference genomes and search.

Projects

Handling a Project by creating a new habitat, creating new samples and DNA extracts and how to import sequence data

Analysis

How to perform quality control, select a analysis pipeline and monitor the selected jobs.

Assembly

How to assemble a metagenome or metatranscriptome.

Visualization

How to visualize the results, export sequences, get biodiversity indices and display reference mappings.

Custom Pipelines

Create custom analysis pipelines within MGX.

References

Altschul et al., 1990 Altschul, S. F., Gish, W., Miller, W., Myers, E. W., and Lipman, D. J. (1990).Basic local alignment search tool. Journal of molecular biology, 215(3):403–410. Hughes et al., 2002 Hughes, J. B., Hellmann, J. J., Ricketts, T. H., and Bohannan, B. J. (2002). Counting the uncountable: Statistical approaches to estimating microbial diversity. Applied and environmental microbiology, 68(1):448. Langmead and Salzberg, 2012 Langmead, B. and Salzberg, S. L.