Create Taxonomic Profiling Index
This tool will compute a a taxonomic profiling index from a reference database. Indexes are then used as input to the Taxonomic Profiling tool. To run the tool, go to:
Databases (
) | Taxonomic Analysis | Create Taxonomic Profiling Index
In the first dialog, select one or several nucleotide databases, for example downloaded with the Download Microbial Reference Database tool (figure 18.9).
Figure 18.9: Select reference sequences.
The output is an index file and a report as seen in figure 18.10. The report list the number of sequence and basepairs that were indexed.
Figure 18.10: The reference sequences,index and report as seen in the Navigation Area.