Volume et al. Knight 2007 8, Issue 8, Article R171 Software Open Access comment Rob Knight¤*, Peter Maxwell¤†, Amanda Birmingham‡, Jason Carnes§, J Gregory Caporaso¶, Brett C Easton†, Michael Eaton¥, Micah Hamady#, Helen Lindsay†, Zongzhi Liu*, Catherine Lozupone*, Daniel McDonald#, Michael Robeson**, Raymond Sammut†, Sandra Smit*, Matthew J Wakefield†,††, Jeremy Widmann*, Shandy Wikman*, Stephanie Wilson#, Hua Ying† and Gavin A Huttley† Addresses: *Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA. †Computational Genomics Laboratory, John Curtin School of Medical Research, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia. ‡Thermo Fisher Scientific, Lafayette, Colorado, USA. §Seattle Biomedical Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, USA. ¶Department. | Software Open Access PyCogent a toolkit for making sense from sequence Rob KnightH Peter MaxwellH Amanda Birmingham Jason Carnes J Gregory Caporaso Brett C Easton Michael Eaton Micah Hamady Helen Lindsay Zongzhi Liu Catherine Lozupone Daniel McDonald Michael Robeson Raymond Sammut Sandra Smit Matthew J Wakefield Jeremy Widmann Shandy Wikman Stephanie Wilson Hua Ying and Gavin A Huttley Addresses Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry University of Colorado Boulder Colorado USA. Computational Genomics Laboratory John Curtin School of Medical Research The Australian National University Canberra Australian Capital Territory Australia. Thermo Fisher Scientific Lafayette Colorado USA. Seattle Biomedical Research Institute Seattle Washington USA. Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics University of Colorado Health Sciences Center Aurora Colorado USA. Science Applications International Corporation Englewood Colorado USA. Department of Computer Science University of Colorado Boulder Colorado USA. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of Colorado Boulder Colorado USA. Walter and Eliza Hall Institute Melbourne Victoria Australia. H These authors contributed equally to this work. Correspondence Rob Knight. Email rob@. Gavin A Huttley. Email Published 21 August 2007 Genome Biology 2007 8 R171 doi gb-2007-8-8-rl 71 The electronic version of this article is the complete one and can be found online at http 2007 8 8 R171 Received 30 May 2007 Revised 1 3 August 2007 Accepted 21 August 2007 2007 Knight et al. licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract We have implemented in Python the COmparative GENomic Toolkit a fully .
