Remark: all functionality implemented in raccoon has been moved to progenomics and will be maintained there.
Rapid bActerial Cross-species COmparative geNOmics
- Rapid: all tasks should be feasible to run overnight on a modern desktop computer on thousands of bacterial genomes.
- Bacterial: archaeal genomes are also fine. "Prokaryotic" didn't fit into the acronym.
- Cross-species: RACCOON can work with any set of genomes, not necessarily belonging to the same species (in contrast to a tool like e.g. roary).
- Comparative Genomics: RACCOON contains several pipelines to compare large numbers of genomes.
RACCOON is currently in development. In the near future, a pipeline will be included that performs extraction of all single-copy core genes from a large set of genomes, and this in a database-independent manner.