Hello, collegues,
I'm trying to estimate the distribution of a certain kind of microorganism (eg Methanobacterium) in a certain environment (permafrost) from metagenomic data presented on various online services (NCBI, MG-RAST, https://microbeatlas.org). Such an analysis can be done on MG-RAST, but data are scarce. The service https://microbeatlas.org gives good data, but they do not correspond to the entire genus, but only to selected reference genomes. The situation is complicated by the fact that my computer is not very powerful and I cannot download 10,000 metagenomes and analyze them myself. Can you please tell me if it is possible to carry out such an analysis online, at least partially, with post-processing on a computer?
Unfortunately the answer is no.
There is no such online server or service where you can do it.
Forget about analysis you might not be able to download 10,000 metagenomes.
To add more, even medium capacity cluster computer might not be suitable for it. Also, this work is not something one individual can design and execute as a project. It certainly require structured planning, project design and team to carry out the work. I guess your national genomics/bioinformatics infrastructure (if you have that in your country) or institute can be contacted for guidances.
Hello Vladimir,
I agree with Dr. Abhijeet. Working with 10000 genomes requires a lot of planning and very powerful servers. However for smaller and more modest projects you could try working with cyverse servers, or with usegalaxy servers.
https://usegalaxy.org/
https://cyverse.org/
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