name: malt_build
description: MALT, an acronym for MEGAN alignment tool, is a sequence alignment and analysis tool designed for processing high-throughput sequencing data, especially in the context of metagenomics.
keywords:
  - malt
  - alignment
  - metagenomics
  - ancient DNA
  - aDNA
  - palaeogenomics
  - archaeogenomics
  - microbiome
  - database
tools:
  - malt:
      description: A tool for mapping metagenomic data
      homepage: https://www.wsi.uni-tuebingen.de/lehrstuehle/algorithms-in-bioinformatics/software/malt/
      documentation: https://software-ab.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/download/malt/manual.pdf
      tool_dev_url: None
      doi: "10.1038/s41559-017-0446-6"
      licence: ['GPL v3']

input:
  - fastas:
      type: file
      description: Directory of, or FASTA reference files for indexing
      pattern: "*/|*.fasta"
  - seq_type:
      type: string
      description: Type of input data
      pattern: "DNA|Protein"
  - gff:
      type: file
      description: Directory of, or GFF3 files of input FASTA files
      pattern: "*/|*.gff|*.gff3"
  - map_db:
      type: file
      description: MEGAN .db file from https://software-ab.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/download/megan6/welcome.html
      pattern:

output:
  - version:
      type: file
      description: File containing software version
      pattern: "versions.yml"
  - index:
      type: directory
      description: Directory containing MALT database index directory
      pattern: "malt_index/"
  - log:
      type: file
      description: Log file from STD out of malt-build
      pattern: "malt-build.log"

authors:
  - "@jfy133"