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 rarefaction.single command generates intra-sample rarefaction curves using a re-sampling without replacement approach. Rarefaction curves provide a way of comparing the richness observed in different samples. For calc parameter choices see: https://www.mothur.org/wiki/Calculators