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Mothur is an open-source bioinformatics platform for microbial ecology analysis. Provides tools for 16S/18S/ITS amplicon sequence processing, OTU clustering, phylotype classification, ASV generation,
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Install the MCP server or CLI to instantly fetch Mothur documentation:
Install command
claude mcp add biocontext7 -- npx @biocontext7/mcpOr share this page: biocontext7.com/tools/mothur
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