A modular command-line solution for visualisation, quality control and taxonomic partitioning of genome datasets

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• Issues, bug reports and feature requests: GitHub issues
• Documentation: blobtools.readme.io
• Citation: Laetsch DR and Blaxter ML, 2017

• UNIX system
• Python 2.7+
• pip

$ git clone https://github.com/DRL/blobtools.git
$ cd blobtools
$ ./install

The installation script will:

• install Python dependencies through pip
• download and install a copy of samtools-1.5 into the folder blobtools/samtools/
• download a copy of NCBI TaxDump and create a nodesDB.txt file in blobtools/data/. BlobTools will use this file for linking TaxIDs to NCBI taxonomies
• create a BlobTools executable (blobtools) in the main directory

$ ./blobtools -h