Aligned bac120 markers
Abstract
This repository contains alignments of the bac120 markers for all 136646 representative bacterial genomes from release 226 of the GTDB database [1]. To produce these, the unaligned marker sequences were retrieved from the GTDB database and aligned using MAFFT [2] with the --auto option. The full uncompressed alignments require around 277GB of disk space. [1] Parks, D. H., Chuvochina, M., Rinke, C., Mussig, A. J., Chaumeil, P. A., & Hugenholtz, P. (2022). GTDB: an ongoing census of bacterial and archaeal diversity through a phylogenetically consistent, rank normalized and complete genome-based taxonomy. Nucleic Acids Research, 50(D1), D785–D794. https://doi.org/10.1093/NAR/GKAB776 [2] Katoh, K., & Standley, D. M. (2013). MAFFT Multiple Sequence Alignment Software Version 7: Improvements in Performance and Usability. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 30(4), 772–780. https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/mst010
Fields of Study & Subjects
Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
Protist diversity and phylogeny
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
- Publication date
- 7 February 2026
- Document type
- Dataset