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XspecT is a Python-based web-application to taxonomically classify Acinetobacter (and other bacterial) sequence-reads (or assembled genomes) on the species and/or sub-type level using Bloom Filters and a Support Vector Machine. It also identifies existing blaOxa-genes and provides a list of relevant research paper for further research.

XspecT utilizes the uniqueness of kmers and compares extracted kmers from the input-data to a reference database. Bloom Filter ensure a fast lookup for this process. For a final prediction the results are classified using a Support Vector Machine. Local extensions of the reference database are supported.

The tool is available as a web-based application and as command line interface as well.