PhyloSift is a metagenomic analysis tool that provides:
- Support for paired-end Illumina data and marker genes for bacteria, archaea, eukaryotes, and viruses.
- Taxonomy assignments based on probability distributions over a reference phylogeny.
- Tools for building marker gene packages, simulating metagenomic data, placing environmental sequences on trees, and updating reference databases with new genomes.
- The ability to work with any marker genes, including fungal ITS sequences if provided a reference dataset.