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 merge.groups command reads a shared file and a design file and merges the groups in the shared file that are in the same grouping in the design file.
duck | bird |
cow | mammal |
pig | mammal |
goose | bird |
cobra | reptile |
The Make_Design tool can construct a design file from a Mothur dataset that contains group names.