taxonomic classification of contigs and metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs)
Contig Annotation Tool (CAT) and Bin Annotation Tool (BAT) are pipelines
for the taxonomic classification of long DNA sequences and metagenome
assembled genomes (MAGs/bins) of both known and (highly) unknown
microorganisms, as generated by contemporary metagenomics studies. The
core algorithm of both programs involves gene calling, mapping of
predicted ORFs against the nr protein database, and voting-based
classification of the entire contig / MAG based on classification of the
individual ORFs. CAT and BAT can be run from intermediate steps if files
are formatted appropriately.
