title: The MG-RAST metagenomics database and portal in 2015.
abstract: MG-RAST (http://metagenomics.anl.gov) is an open-submission data portal for processing, analyzing, sharing and disseminating metagenomic datasets. The system currently hosts over 200,000 datasets and is continuously updated. The volume of submissions has increased 4-fold over the past 24 months, now averaging 4 terabasepairs per month. In addition to several new features, we report changes to the analysis workflow and the technologies used to scale the pipeline up to the required throughput levels. To show possible uses for the data from MG-RAST, we present several examples integrating data and analyses from MG-RAST into popular third-party analysis tools or sequence alignment tools.
authors.affiliation: Argonne National Laboratory, Mathematics and Computer Science Division, 60439 Argonne, IL, USA University of Chicago, Chicago 60637, IL, USA.
authors.forename: Andreas
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Wilke
authors.affiliation: Argonne National Laboratory, Mathematics and Computer Science Division, 60439 Argonne, IL, USA University of Chicago, Chicago 60637, IL, USA.
authors.forename: Jared
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bischof
authors.affiliation: Argonne National Laboratory, Mathematics and Computer Science Division, 60439 Argonne, IL, USA University of Chicago, Chicago 60637, IL, USA.
authors.forename: Wolfgang
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Gerlach
authors.affiliation: Argonne National Laboratory, Mathematics and Computer Science Division, 60439 Argonne, IL, USA University of Chicago, Chicago 60637, IL, USA.
authors.forename: Elizabeth
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Glass
authors.affiliation: Argonne National Laboratory, Mathematics and Computer Science Division, 60439 Argonne, IL, USA University of Chicago, Chicago 60637, IL, USA.
authors.forename: Travis
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Harrison
authors.affiliation: Argonne National Laboratory, Mathematics and Computer Science Division, 60439 Argonne, IL, USA University of Chicago, Chicago 60637, IL, USA.
authors.forename: Kevin P
authors.initials: KP
authors.lastname: Keegan
authors.affiliation: Argonne National Laboratory, Mathematics and Computer Science Division, 60439 Argonne, IL, USA University of Chicago, Chicago 60637, IL, USA.
authors.forename: Tobias
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Paczian
authors.affiliation: Argonne National Laboratory, Mathematics and Computer Science Division, 60439 Argonne, IL, USA University of Chicago, Chicago 60637, IL, USA.
authors.forename: William L
authors.initials: WL
authors.lastname: Trimble
authors.affiliation: Purdue University, School of Electrical & Computer Engineering, 47907 West Lafayette, IN, USA.
authors.forename: Saurabh
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bagchi
authors.affiliation: Purdue University, Department of Computer Sciences, 47907 West Lafayette, IN, USA.
authors.forename: Ananth
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Grama
authors.affiliation: Purdue University, Department of Computer Sciences, 47907 West Lafayette, IN, USA.
authors.forename: Somali
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Chaterji
authors.affiliation: Argonne National Laboratory, Mathematics and Computer Science Division, 60439 Argonne, IL, USA University of Chicago, Chicago 60637, IL, USA folker@anl.gov.
authors.forename: Folker
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Meyer
mesh_terms: D030561:Databases, Nucleic Acid; D020407:Internet; D056186:Metagenomics; D016415:Sequence Alignment