Add a Reference Database (Optional)

To classify genomes taxonomically you need to install a referene database. There are two currently available, TypeMat_Lite and Phyla_lite. TypeMat_Lite contains over 13,500 genomes from type material. Phyla_Lite contains one reference genome from each of the 40 bacterial and archaeal phyla. Most of the tuorials use Phyla_Lite so execution times will be shorter.

Note: If you are running MiGA on a cluster, see the section Installing MiGA using Singularity for instructions on installing the reference databases. This is because installing larger databases on a cluster should be done by submitting a job.