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# README

Welcome to the mothur project, initiated by Dr. Patrick Schloss and his software development team in the Department of Microbiology &amp; Immunology at The University of Michigan. This project seeks to develop a single piece of open-source, expandable software to fill the bioinformatics needs of the microbial ecology community. mothur is available under the GPL license.

Useful links...
* [The current release](https://github.com/mothur/mothur/releases/latest)
* [Wiki documentation](http://www.mothur.org/wiki)
* [User forum](http://www.mothur.org/forum)
* [Blog](http://www.mothur.org/forum)

SOPs...
* [MiSeq](http://www.mothur.org/wiki/MiSeq_SOP)
* [454](http://www.mothur.org/wiki/454_SOP)

References...
* [SILVA](http://www.mothur.org/wiki/Silva_reference_files)
* [greengenes](http://www.mothur.org/wiki/Greengenes-formatted_databases)
* [RDP](http://www.mothur.org/wiki/RDP_reference_files)

See the [citation file](CITATION.md) for how to cite mothur.