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 biom.info command reads a biom file creates a shared file. If your biom file contains metadata mothur will also create taxonomy or constaxonomy along with tax.summary files.