RT Journal
A1 Kim, Daehwan
A1 Song, Li
A1 Breitwieser, Florian P.
A1 Salzberg, Steven L.
T1 Centrifuge: rapid and sensitive classification of metagenomic sequences
JF Genome Research 
JO Genome Research 
YR 2016 
FD December 01 
VO 26 
IS 12 
SP 1721 
OP 1729 
DO 10.1101/gr.210641.116 
UL http://genome.cshlp.org/content/26/12/1721.abstract 
AB Centrifuge is a novel microbial classification engine that enables rapid, accurate, and sensitive labeling of reads and quantification of species on desktop computers. The system uses an indexing scheme based on the Burrows-Wheeler transform (BWT) and the Ferragina-Manzini (FM) index, optimized specifically for the metagenomic classification problem. Centrifuge requires a relatively small index (4.2 GB for 4078 bacterial and 200 archaeal genomes) and classifies sequences at very high speed, allowing it to process the millions of reads from a typical high-throughput DNA sequencing run within a few minutes. Together, these advances enable timely and accurate analysis of large metagenomics data sets on conventional desktop computers. Because of its space-optimized indexing schemes, Centrifuge also makes it possible to index the entire NCBI nonredundant nucleotide sequence database (a total of 109 billion bases) with an index size of 69 GB, in contrast to k-mer-based indexing schemes, which require far more extensive space.