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ArticleGenome biology2019

Improved metagenomic analysis with Kraken 2.

Derrick E Wood, Jennifer Lu, Ben Langmead

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Article in Genome biology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05469997 (Ketogenic Diet Interventions in Parkinson's Disease), which is not on this map. Cited by 4,235 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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NCT05469997 nacompletednot on this mapstarted 2023, after this paper: background citation

Ketogenic Diet Interventions in Parkinson's Disease: Safeguarding the Gut Microbiome

TypeinterventionalSponsorUniversity of British ColumbiaRan2023 to 2024Enrolled52ConditionsParkinson DiseaseArmsMediterranean-Ketogenic Diet, Mediterranean diet supplemented with medium-chain triglyceride oil
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4,235 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Derrick E WoodDepartment of Computer Science, Whiting School of Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Jennifer LuCenter for Computational Biology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Ben LangmeadDepartment of Computer Science, Whiting School of Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA. langmea@cs.jhu.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2437-1976

Funding

Computational Methods for Microbial and Microbiome Sequence AnalysisR35GM130151 · NIGMS · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI Steven L. Salzberg · 2019 to 2026
$2.9M
Hardening and Scaling Core Genomics SoftwareR01GM118568 · NIGMS · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI LANGMEAD, BENJAMIN THOMAS · 2016 to 2020
$2.0M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM118568NIGMS NIH HHS R01-GM118568NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM130151NIGMS NIH HHS R35-GM130151
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Although Kraken's k-mer-based approach provides a fast taxonomic classification of metagenomic sequence data, its large memory requirements can be limiting for some applications. Kraken 2 improves upon Kraken 1 by reducing memory usage by 85%, allowing greater amounts of reference genomic data to be used, while maintaining high accuracy and increasing speed fivefold. Kraken 2 also introduces a translated search mode, providing increased sensitivity in viral metagenomics analysis.

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SoftwareMetagenomicsAlignment-free methodsMetagenomicsMetagenomics classificationMicrobiomeMinimizersProbabilistic data structures

Identifiers

PMID31779668
PMCPMC6883579

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