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+# README
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+Welcome to the mothur project, initiated by Dr. Patrick Schloss and his software development team in the Department of Microbiology & Immunology at The University of Michigan. This project seeks to develop a single piece of open-source, expandable software to fill the bioinformatics needs of the microbial ecology community. mothur is available under the GPL license.
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+Useful links...
+* [The current release](https://github.com/mothur/mothur/releases/latest)
+* [Wiki documentation](http://www.mothur.org/wiki)
+* [User forum](http://www.mothur.org/forum)
+* [Blog](http://www.mothur.org/forum)
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+SOPs...
+* [MiSeq](http://www.mothur.org/wiki/MiSeq_SOP)
+* [454](http://www.mothur.org/wiki/454_SOP)
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+References...
+* [SILVA](http://www.mothur.org/wiki/Silva_reference_files)
+* [greengenes](http://www.mothur.org/wiki/Greengenes-formatted_databases)
+* [RDP](http://www.mothur.org/wiki/RDP_reference_files)