raxtax: a new fast and scalable taxonomic classifier
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Alexandros Stamatakis
Dec 17, 2025, 3:05:08 AM (2 days ago) Dec 17
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Dear Users,
Our new raxtax tool for taxonomic classification is now published and
available for use. It is 2.7–100 times faster than competing tools but
equally accurate - raxtax also exhibits increasing speedups with growing
query and reference sequence numbers compared to existing tools:
https://academic.oup.com/bioinformatics/article/41/12/btaf620/8328298
Alexis
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Alexandros (Alexis) Stamatakis
ERA Chair, Institute of Computer Science, Foundation for Research and
Technology - Hellas
Research Group Leader, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies
Full Professor, Dept. of Informatics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
www.biocomp.gr (Crete lab)
www.exelixis-lab.org (Heidelberg lab)
Our new raxtax tool for taxonomic classification is now published and
available for use. It is 2.7–100 times faster than competing tools but
equally accurate - raxtax also exhibits increasing speedups with growing
query and reference sequence numbers compared to existing tools:
https://academic.oup.com/bioinformatics/article/41/12/btaf620/8328298
Alexis
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Alexandros (Alexis) Stamatakis
ERA Chair, Institute of Computer Science, Foundation for Research and
Technology - Hellas
Research Group Leader, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies
Full Professor, Dept. of Informatics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
www.biocomp.gr (Crete lab)
www.exelixis-lab.org (Heidelberg lab)
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