FunctionSIM: A sequencing simulator for functional metagenomics

To facilitate the development and improvement of metagenomic tools we developed a sequence simulator - FunctionSIM. As standalone software it allows users to simulate metagenomic sequence datasets that can be used as standardized test data for planning metagenomic projects or for benchmarking software in functional metagenomic analysis.

 

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 Screen of data selection

 

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Screen of parameter configuration

 

Software can be downloaded here with the associated README file.