Functional assessment of microbiota in various environments using MAPLE. Version 1.

Abstract

MAPLE is an automatic system that can perform a series of steps used in the evaluation of potential comprehensive functions (i.e., functionomes) harbored by genomes and metagenomes. From April (2016) through March (2017), MAPLE was accessed 2.5 million times. However, beginners still have difficulty in processing such massive raw datasets produced by NGS prior to data submission to MAPLE and in interpreting MAPLE results, which contain many rows of numerical values. Thus, we now provide a complete system to support every step from initial data processing to final visualization of the MAPLE results.