PR2 database annotated eukaryote 18S

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Hi Pat

The PR2 is database dedicated to 18S eukaryotic sequences with a good taxonomy annotation (better than Silva because curated by specialists).

http://ssu-rrna.org/

A paper has been published in NAR : http://ssu-rrna.org/citation.html

I have created a fasta file and a taxonomy file following the mothur format for the latest release of PR2 based (gb200). Is there anyway this could be posted on the mothur wiki for other people to use ? How to proceed ?

Daniel Vaulot, Station Biologique de Roscoff

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You can post it to the wiki and add a link on the reference taxonomy databases. that would be a great contribution!

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Hi Pat

This is done : http://www.mothur.org/wiki/PR2_reference_files

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Hi,

I tried to use the PR2 Reference database and download the files for mothur on the website however the taxonomy files seem to have a problem because when I try to open it there is undecipherable characters. Could you help me please.

A. Volant
postgraduate at Hydroscience Montpellier, France

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It looks like there’s some encoding error in the mothur/QIIME taxonomy files. The gb203_pr2.tlf file looks fine though, so in the short term your best bet would be to reformat it into a mothur-compatible version.

Here’s a quick python script that will do the trick:

import sys

for line in open(sys.argv[1],'r'):
 line = line.strip().split('\t')
 seq = line.pop(0)
 taxList = [x.split('{')[1] for x in line[1:]]
 taxList = [x.replace('}','') for x in taxList]
 tax = ';'.join(taxList)
 print('%(seq)s\t%(tax)s;' % {'seq':seq,'tax':tax})

Just save this into a file and run as:

python whatever.py gb203_pr2.tlf > gb203_pr2.mothur.tax

And you should be good to go.

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thanks a lot :wink:

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The PR2 page seems to be missing ?

http://www.mothur.org/wiki/PR2_reference_files

Has it gone during the update of the wiki ?

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Yes, I would also be interested in being able to implement the PR2 database in mothur.

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Hi,
I downloaded the PR2 file from their website.
How do you use the PR2 fasta file and PR2 taxonomy file as the database align file?

When I try to use them I get an error that the PR2 fasta file is not aligned.

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I think it will only work for classification and not alignment. You will only want to use it with classify.seqs.

Pat

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An updated version of the PR2 database is now available on Figshare :

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The PR2 database has been updated.