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ArticleBMC bioinformatics2023

BADASS: BActeriocin-Diversity ASsessment Software.

Sávio S Costa, Gislenne da Silva Moia, Artur Silva, Rafael A Baraúna, Adonney Allan de Oliveira Veras

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Article in BMC bioinformatics, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
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8 citing papers in PubMed, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Sávio S CostaParque de Ciência e Tecnologia Guamá, Laboratório de Engenharia Biológica, Belém, Pará, Brazil. savscosta@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7288-4157
Gislenne da Silva MoiaFaculty of Computer Engineering, Federal University of Pará, Campus Tucuruí (CAMTUC-UFPA), Belém, Pará, Brazil.
Artur SilvaParque de Ciência e Tecnologia Guamá, Laboratório de Engenharia Biológica, Belém, Pará, Brazil.
Rafael A BaraúnaParque de Ciência e Tecnologia Guamá, Laboratório de Engenharia Biológica, Belém, Pará, Brazil.
Adonney Allan de Oliveira VerasFaculty of Computing, Federal University of Pará, Campus Castanhal (FACOMP/CCAST), Belém, Pará, Brazil.
Universidade Federal do Pará · BR

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundBacteriocins are defined as thermolabile peptides produced by bacteria with biological activity against taxonomically related species. These antimicrobial peptides have a wide application including disease treatment, food conservation, and probiotics. However, even with a large industrial and biotechnological application potential, these peptides are still poorly studied and explored. BADASS is software with a user-friendly graphical interface applied to the search and analysis of bacteriocin diversity in whole-metagenome shotgun sequencing data.

resultsThe search for bacteriocin sequences is performed with tools such as BLAST or DIAMOND using the BAGEL4 database as a reference. The putative bacteriocin sequences identified are used to determine the abundance and richness of the three classes of bacteriocins. Abundance is calculated by comparing the reads identified as bacteriocins to the reads identified as 16S rRNA gene using SILVA database as a reference. BADASS has a complete pipeline that starts with the quality assessment of the raw data. At the end of the analysis, BADASS generates several plots of richness and abundance automatically as well as tabular files containing information about the main bacteriocins detected. The user is able to change the main parameters of the analysis in the graphical interface. To demonstrate how the software works, we used four datasets from WMS studies using default parameters. Lantibiotics were the most abundant bacteriocins in the four datasets. This class of bacteriocin is commonly produced by Streptomyces sp.

conclusionsWith a user-friendly graphical interface and a complete pipeline, BADASS proved to be a powerful tool for prospecting bacteriocin sequences in Whole-Metagenome Shotgun Sequencing (WMS) data. This tool is publicly available at https://sourceforge.net/projects/badass/ .

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BacteriocinsAnti-Bacterial AgentsBacteriaMetagenomeRNA, Ribosomal, 16SSoftwareAnti-Bacterial AgentsBacteriocinsRNA, Ribosomal, 16SAntimicrobial peptidesBacteriocinMetagenome miningSoftware development

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PMID36670373
PMCPMC9854158
OpenAlexW4317569288

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