Overview
- MARTi, an open-source platform reported in Genome Research, enables real-time analysis and visualization of nanopore metagenomic data.
- The system combines a lightweight MARTi Engine with a browser-based GUI and runs from standard laptops to high-performance computing environments.
- Users can choose classifiers such as BLAST, Centrifuge, or Kraken2, customize databases and parameters, and generate publication-ready figures.
- Developers report robust performance on simulated and real datasets across multiple collaborations, including accurate read classification, taxon detection, and abundance estimates.
- The team is integrating MARTi with AirSeq for airborne DNA monitoring, with a stated goal of continuous field sampling that could provide real-time alerts in agriculture.