What is the difference between "phylophlan" database and "SGB.XXX"?

[augfranco93]

Hi, Hope you are well. I'm working in a metagenomic analysis, and I want to use phylophlan_metagenomic module. Exist any difference between "phylophlan" database and "SGB.XXX"? Which is better to run the module that I want?

Thank you very much.

[MapleHe]

As I understand, phylophlan database is for phylogeny analysis analysis, used in main function of PhloPhlAn.

SGB.XXX are specific database for taxon (SGB) assignment, used in phylophlan_metagenomic module. So I think SGB.xxx is what you may want. And it seems that the module should download the database files automatically.

Update: It seems that in the latest version of phylophlan, the module has been renamed to phylophlan_assign_sgbs

[ScienceAdvances]

phylophlan_metagenomic renamed to phylophlan_assign_sgbs!!! Thanks for notifying