What input format does MG-RAST accept?
• MG-RAST can accept sequence data generated by 454 pyrosequencing as well as longer reads generated by the Sanger method. DNA sequences reads should be in FASTA format. All reads for one metagenomic sample should be in one file. Multiple metagenome files from one study or project may be uploaded together if they are compressed together in one archive using zip or tar and gzip? . You may include the quality file in the compressed archive, but that data is not used in the MG-RAST analysis. All data files must be plain text–not Microsoft Word.
