vsearch

Versatile open-source tool for metagenomics

VSEARCH supports de novo and reference based chimera detection, clustering, full-length and prefix dereplication, rereplication, reverse complementation, masking, all-vs-all pairwise global alignment, exact and global alignment searching, shuffling, subsampling and sorting. It also supports FASTQ file analysis, filtering, conversion and merging of paired-end reads. The aim of this project is to create an alternative to the USEARCH tool developed by Robert C. Edgar (2010).