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 make.contigs command reads a forward fastq file and a reverse fastq file and outputs new fasta and quality files.
v.1.27.0: Updated to use Mothur 1.33. Added findex and rindex parmaeters, optionally used with the oligos file.