MinCED - Mining CRISPRs in Environmental Datasets MinCED is a program to find Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPRs) in full genomes or environmental datasets such as metagenomes, in which sequence size can be anywhere from 100 to 800 bp. MinCED runs from the command-line and was derived from CRT (http://www.room220.com/crt/): Charles Bland et al., CRISPR Recognition Tool (CRT): a tool for automatic detection of clustered regularly interspaced palindromic repeats, BMC Bioinformatics 8, no. 1 (2007): 209. INSTALLATION You need to install these dependencies first: * Java (http://www.java.com/en/download/) there is a Makefile in the source directory so installation should be as simple as: $ cd <download_folder> $ make To run MinCED: $ ./minced [options] file.fa The help page can be obtained by typing: $ ./minced --help You can get the MinCED version this way: $ ./minced --version NOTE: Always keep `minced` and `minced.jar` in the same folder! EXAMPLES Finding CRISPRs in the E. coli genome: $ minced ecoli.fna To find repeats in short sequences, we need to decrease the minimum number of repeats to find. For example, in 100 bp reads, we could not possibly find more than 2 repeats: $ minced -minNR 2 metagenome.fna The output can be large, so save it in a file: $ minced -minNR 2 metagenome.fna metagenome.crisprs COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE Copyright 2011 Florent ANGLY <florent.angly@gmail.com> 2013-2015 Connor SKENNERTON <c.skennerton@gmail.com> MinCED is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. MinCED is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with MinCED. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. BUGS All complex software has bugs lurking in it, and this program is no exception. If you find a bug please post an issue on github https://github.com/ctSkennerton/minced/issues