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- Title
Cd-hit: a fast program for clustering and comparing large sets of protein or nucleotide sequences.
- Authors
Li, Weizhong; Godzik, Adam
- Abstract
In 2001 and 2002, we published two papers (Bioinformatics, 17, 282-283, Bioinformatics, 18, 77-82) describing an ultrafast protein sequence clustering program called cd-hit. This program can efficiently cluster a huge protein database with millions of sequences. However, the applications of the underlying algorithm are not limited to only protein sequences clustering, here we present several new programs using the same algorithm including cd-hit-2d, cd-hit-est and cd-hit-est-2d. Cd-hit-2d compares two protein datasets and reports similar matches between them; cd-hit-est clusters a DNA/RNA sequence database and cd-hit-est-2d compares two nucleotide datasets. All these programs can handle huge datasets with millions of sequences and can be hundreds of times faster than methods based on the popular sequence comparison and database search tools, such as BLAST.
- Publication
Bioinformatics (Oxford, England), 2006, Vol 22, Issue 13, p1658
- ISSN
1367-4803
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1093/bioinformatics/btl158