A Galaxy workflow for the functional annotation of metagenomic samples

Abstract

In this work, an annotation workflow was developed, which performs a series of annotation tasks to sequences originating from metagenomic samples, using standard bioinformatics tools and Perl scripts. The Perl scripts interact with a Mysql database in order to store all annotation results to the respective tables, thus rendering easy the quick access and querying to all data. The whole pipeline was integrated into a Galaxy server, which provides a simple and intuitive interface that allows the user to easily create, run and share workflows for large datasets. © 2012 Springer-Verlag.