Bacterial Genome Identification and Alignment using GTDB-Tk in Metagenomic Studies

In this study, we utilized the GTDB-Tk software package to identify and align bacterial genomes from metagenomic sequencing data. Specifically, we used the GTDB-Tk 'identify' module to assign taxonomy to the genomes and the GTDB-Tk 'align' module to align the genomes to a reference database for downstream analysis.