Swarm v3: towards tera-scale amplicon clustering

Mahe, Frederic; Czech, Lucas; Stamatakis, Alexandros; Quince, Christopher; de Vargas, Colomban; Dunthorn, Micah; Rognes, Torbjorn
2021
BIOINFORMATICS
DOI
10.1093/bioinformatics/btab493
Motivation: Previously we presented swarm, an open-source amplicon clustering programme that produces fine-scale molecular operational taxonomic units (OTUs) that are free of arbitrary global clustering thresholds. Here, we present swarm v3 to address issues of contemporary datasets that are growing towards tera-byte sizes.