.TH MOTHUR 1 "2011-01-30" .SH NAME mothur \- sequence analysis suite for research on microbiota .SH SYNOPSIS .B mothur [ batchfile ] .SH DESCRIPTION This manual page documents briefly the .B mothur command. .PP \fBMothur\fP seeks to develop a single piece of open-source, expandable software to fill the bioinformatics needs of the microbial ecology community. It has incorporated the functionality of dotur, sons, treeclimber, s-libshuff, unifrac, and much more. In addition to improving the flexibility of these algorithms, a number of other features including calculators and visualization tools were added. .SH SEE ALSO Online manual .BR http://www.mothur.org/wiki/Mothur_manual .SH AUTHOR #PACKAGE# was written by . .PP This manual page was written by #USERNAME# <#EMAIL#>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others).