SINTAX: a simple non-Bayesian taxonomy classifier for 16S and ITS sequences

By Robert C. Edgar. bioRxiv, 2016

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Bacterial metabolism of bile acids promotes peripheral Treg cell generation (2020, positive): “Taxonomic classification of OTU representative sequences was performed using usearch-sintax, an implementation of the SINTAX algorithm 30 using version 16 of the Ribosomal Database Project (RDP) Training Set 31 .”
The UNITE database for molecular identification and taxonomic communication of fungi and other eukaryotes: sequences, taxa and classifications reconsidered (2023, background): “UNITE offers web-based third-party sequence curation and addition of metadata, and SH-based reference datasets are released for many popular metabarcoding (massive parallel sequencing of amplified genetic markers; ( 4 )) pipelines, notably QIIME ( 5 ) and SINTAX ( 6 ).”
Optimizing taxonomic classification of marker-gene amplicon sequences with QIIME 2’s q2-feature-classifier plugin (2018, methodology): “Novel taxon classification performance is evaluated using precision, recall, F501 measure, overclassification rates, underclassification rates, and misclassification rates [25] 502 for each taxonomic level (phylum to species), computed with the following definitions (see 503 below, Performance analy”