To cite mothur in a scholarly article, please use:
Schloss, P.D., et al., Introducing mothur: Open-source, platform-independent, community-supported software for describing and comparing microbial communities. Appl Environ Microbiol, 2009. 75(23):7537-41
A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users:
@article {Schloss7537,
author = {Schloss, Patrick D. and Westcott, Sarah L. and Ryabin, Thomas and Hall, Justine R. and Hartmann, Martin and Hollister, Emily B. and Lesniewski, Ryan A. and Oakley, Brian B. and Parks, Donovan H. and Robinson, Courtney J. and Sahl, Jason W. and Stres, Blaz and Thallinger, Gerhard G. and Van Horn, David J. and Weber, Carolyn F.},
title = {Introducing mothur: Open-Source, Platform-Independent, Community-Supported Software for Describing and Comparing Microbial Communities},
volume = {75},
number = {23},
pages = {7537--7541},
year = {2009},
doi = {10.1128/AEM.01541-09},
publisher = {American Society for Microbiology Journals},
abstract = {mothur aims to be a comprehensive software package that allows users to use a single piece of software to analyze community sequence data. It builds upon previous tools to provide a flexible and powerful software package for analyzing sequencing data. As a case study, we used mothur to trim, screen, and align sequences; calculate distances; assign sequences to operational taxonomic units; and describe the α and β diversity of eight marine samples previously characterized by pyrosequencing of 16S rRNA gene fragments. This analysis of more than 222,000 sequences was completed in less than 2 h with a laptop computer.},
issn = {0099-2240},
URL = {https://aem.asm.org/content/75/23/7537},
eprint = {https://aem.asm.org/content/75/23/7537.full.pdf},
journal = {Applied and Environmental Microbiology}
}