---
name: "mothur"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "mothur"
version: "1.48.1-1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/mothur"
---

# mothur(1)

sequence analysis suite for research on microbiota

## NAME

mothur -  sequence analysis suite for research on microbiota

## SYNOPSIS

**mothur** \[ batchfile \]

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the **mothur** command.

**Mothur** 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.

## SEE ALSO

Online manual **http://www.mothur.org/wiki/Mothur\_manual**

## AUTHOR

Mothur was written by Patrick D. Schloss and others.

This manual page was written by Andreas Tille \<andreas@debian.org\>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others).