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.sharedseqs command takes a list and group file and outputs a .shared.seqs file for each distance. This is useful for those cases where you might be interested in identifying sequences that are either unique or shared by specific groups, which you could then classify.
v1.21.0: Updated to Mothur 1.33, added shared file option