FishTaco: Functional Shifts’ Taxonomic Contributors

FishTaco is a metagenomic computational framework, aiming to identify the taxa that are driving the functional shifts we observe in microbiomes of different individuals or disease states.

• Installation Instructions
  • Prerequisites for installation
  • Installing FishTaco
  • Testing the software package
• Running FishTaco
  • Usage
  • Required arguments
  • Optional arguments
  • Advanced usage arguments
  • FishTaco Output Files
  • Examples
• FishTaco Visualization
  • FishTacoPlot online plotting
  • FishTacoPlot R package
• Frequently asked questions
  • Can I run FishTaco with a PICRUSt-derived metagenomic functional profile?
  • What is the running time for FishTaco?
  • How can I make FishTaco run faster?

Citing Information

If you use the FishTaco software, please cite the following paper:

An integrative computational framework for identifying taxonomic drivers of functional shifts in the human microbiome. Ohad Manor and Elhanan Borenstein. Submitted

Availability and source code

FishTaco is distributed under a non-commercial license, for commercial use please contact the corresponding author.

Source code for FishTaco is available through GitHub.

Question forum

For FishTaco announcements and questions, you can visit the FAQ page and the FishTaco users forum.