Welcome to the mothur project, initiated by Dr. Patrick Schloss and his software development team in the Department of Microbiology & Immunology at The University of Michigan. This project seeks to develop a single piece of open-source, expandable software to fill the bioinformatics needs of the microbial ecology community. mothur is available under the GPL license.
MothurCuda is a Mothur Implementation that aims to optimize certain commands by leveraging GPU utilities made available by Nvidia Cuda.
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