Mothur Overview
Mothur is a comprehensive suite of tools for microbial ecology community. It is initiated by Dr. Patrick Schloss and his software development team in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at The University of Michigan. For more information, see Mothur-Wiki.
Command Documentation
The get.groups command selects sequences from a specific group or set of groups from the following file types: fasta, fasta, name, group, list, taxonomy.