Figaro Tool for Biomedical Researchers

Accelerate your research with free metagenomics, bioinformatics & epigenetics research tools

It is in this spirit that Zymo Research has developed simple to use, online tools to help move your research forward. Discover what tools can help simplify your workflows and take your research to the next level:

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FIGARO is an efficient and objective tool for optimizing microbiome rRNA gene trimming parameters. FIGARO will quickly analyze error rates in a directory of FASTQ files to determine optimal trimming parameters for high-resolution targeted microbiome sequencing pipelines, such as those utilizing DADA2 and Deblur.

HOW TO USE FIGARO

Introduction

Zymo's bioinformatician Michael Weinstein, PhD gives an introduction to FIGARO, an efficient and objective tool for optimizing microbiome rRNA gene trimming parameters.

Installation

Running in Docker

Running in Python

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