Description

MALT, an acronym for MEGAN alignment tool, is a sequence alignment and analysis tool designed for processing high-throughput sequencing data, especially in the context of metagenomics.

Input

Name (Type)
Description
Pattern

fastas (file)

Directory of, or list of FASTA reference files for indexing

*/|*.fasta

gff (file)

Directory of, or GFF3 files of input FASTA files

*/|*.gff|*.gff3

mapping_db (file)

MEGAN .db file from https://software-ab.cs.uni-tuebingen.de/download/megan6/welcome.html

*.db

Output

Name (Type)
Description
Pattern

versions (file)

File containing software versions

versions.yml

index (directory)

Directory containing MALT database index directory

malt_index/

log (file)

Log file from STD out of malt-build

malt-build.log
author
Github user jfy133
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Tools

malt
GPL v3

A tool for mapping metagenomic data

wsi.uni-tuebingen.de/lehrstuehle/algorithms-in-bioinformatics/software/malt software-ab.cs.uni-tuebingen.de/download/malt/manual.pdf 10.1038/s41559-017-0446-6