Tool and Database Development for the Phylogenetic Classification and Characterisation of Organisms

Abstract

Molecular Biology has become an integral part of every-days work in modern Biology. At the same time, sequencing technologies generate enormous amounts of genomic data in a very short time frame. Powerful bioinformatics tools are required to analyse and interpret these data. This work focuses on the development of tools for two distinct topics in the filed of Bioinformatics: a pipeline to automatically build databases for the phylogenetic identification and classification of organisms, as well as a tool for the functional characterisation organisms and metagenome studies.