I am preparing to align my sequencing data using mothur. Can you tell me what the 'align.seqs' command does and what types of files it needs as input? Also, I want to use the most current SILVA reference database; what is the latest mothur-compatible SILVA version mentioned on the mothur blog?
Navigate to 'mothur.org'. Go to the 'Manual' section. Navigate to the 'Sequence processing' category within the manual. Click on the 'align.seqs' command link. Identify the function of the 'align.seqs' command and its required input files. Navigate to the 'Blog' section of the website. Locate the latest blog post related to SILVA reference files. Identify the specific version number of the SILVA database mentioned as mothur-compatible. Synthesize the command details and the SILVA version.
State that the 'align.seqs' command aligns user-supplied fasta-formatted candidate sequence files to a user-supplied fasta-formatted template alignment. Identify 'candidate file' (or fasta-formatted candidate sequence file) and 'template file' (or fasta-formatted template alignment/reference file) as the two required input files. State the latest mothur-compatible SILVA reference file version mentioned on the blog as 'SILVA v138.2'.