edittag is a suite of programs for designing, checking, and using sets of sequence tags that conform to the edit metric. Here, we define these sets as the groups of sequence tags of a particular length where all tags within the set are at least the select edit (Levenshtein) distance [Levenshtein:1966], [Gusfield:1999] from one another.
At a more general level, edittag contains tools facilitating high levels of plexity during massively parallel DNA sequencing runs.
Using edittag, we have generated several large sets of edit metric sequence tags from four to 10 nucleotides in length and ranging from edit distance three to nine. We provide these pre-generated tag sets under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States license in several forms:
We provide several methods of installing eddittag, see Installation for additional details: