MetaG-MetagenomicDatabaseGenerator

MetaG-MetagenomicDatabaseGenerator generates artificial databases of digital metagenomic sequencing. These can be analyzed by MetaG to test functionality.

Get the app

Prebuilt archives with GUI (graphical user interface) are available:

Windows

• Java included (recommended): MetaG-MetagenomicDatabaseGenerator-2022.1.0-win.zip
• Java not included: MetaG-MetagenomicDatabaseGenerator-2022.1.0-nojava-win.zip

Linux

• Java included (recommended): MetaG-MetagenomicDatabaseGenerator-2022.1.0-linux.zip
• Java not included: MetaG-MetagenomicDatabaseGenerator-2022.1.0-nojava-linux.zip

Alternatives

Alternatively you can build the app with the source code.

• Release: MetaG-MetagenomicDatabaseGenerator-2022.1.0.zip
• Current: MetaG-MetagenomicDatabaseGenerator-main.zip

Run the app

For the non-java version, make sure your JAVA_HOME variable is set to jdk 17+

For self-built version see BUILD.md

Windows

1. Unzip into a folder of your choice
2. Run bin/MetaG-MetagenomicDatabaseGenerator.bat

Linux

1. Unzip into a folder of your choice
2. Run bin/MetaG-MetagenomicDatabaseGenerator

Settings

Setting	Specification
Directory	Target path for generation
Quantity of Databases	How many data sets will be generated.
Quantity of Reads	How many reads each database will contain.
Create Folder	Whether or not to create a separate folder for the process.

Output

Output files are automatically time-stamped in their names and look like the following:

   ...
   0.8632454772612163
   0.4474359764929482
   0.5169626625910273
   0.9848607471139751
   0.2062112094646345
   ...