Taxonomic classification of reads

User Questions
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Hello,
I am working on a metagenomics project in which we will do taxonomic identification/classification of reads issued from ONT sequencing.

Anyway, since I only have windows on my PC I looked for tools that can achieve this work and I found the MEGAN software.

My question is: Can I do the taxonomic identification/classification of my reads using only MEGAN software, or I need some other tools on Linux !

Thanks in advance
Have a good day !

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You will first need to run an alignment tool. Those mostly run on Linux or MacOS. However, ELLA is an alignment tool that runs on Windows. Give that a try.
You can download an early version here:

https://software-ab.cs.uni-tuebingen.de/download/ella/welcome.html