OTU Clustering: A window to analyze uncultured microbial world
| Author(s) | : | Ashaq Hussain Bhat, Puniethaa Prabhu |
| Institution | : | Department of Biotechnology K. S. Rangasamy College of Technology, Tiruchengode, Tamil Nadu |
| Published In | : | Vol. 5, Issue 13 — January 2018 |
| Page No. | : | - |
| Domain | : | Engineering |
| Type | : | Research Paper |
| ISSN (Online) | : | 2348-4470 |
| ISSN (Print) | : | 2348-6406 |
Clustering is the technique used to deal with higher amounts of data by partitioning that data in some groupsbased on some attributes. Clustering technique has many applications in different fields of science and technology. It isan important tool in metagenomics which performs taxonomic profiling of microbial world by grouping 16S rDNAamplicon reads into clusters called as Operational Taxonomic Units (OTUs). Taxonomic profiling of 16S rDNA is animportant step in Metagenomic pipeline analysis. There are several OTU clustering algorithms whichclusters theamplicon reads of 16S rDNA into OTUs, each algorithm use a specific type of clustering technique. Some of thealgorithms are Uclust, swarm, SUMACLUST, SortMeRNA, USEARCH, etc. So in this paper we are first going to give aview of clustering, its types and then OTU clustering algorithms and classifications.
Ashaq Hussain Bhat, Puniethaa Prabhu, “OTU Clustering: A window to analyze uncultured microbial world”, International Journal of Advance Engineering and Research Development (IJAERD), Vol. 5, Issue 13, pp. -, January 2018.
