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 dist.shared command will generate a phylip-formatted_distance_matrix that describes the dissimilarity (1-similarity) among multiple groups from a shared file. For calc parameter choices see: https://www.mothur.org/wiki/Calculators

v1.26.0: Updated to Mothur 1.33. Omitted calculators since they do not appear to be available.