Citing CheckM
If you use CheckM in your research, please cite:
Parks DH, Imelfort M, Skennerton CT, Hugenholtz P, Tyson GW. 2015. CheckM: assessing the quality of microbial genomes recovered from isolates, single cells, and metagenomes. Genome Research, 25: 1043–1055.
CheckM relies on several other software packages; we recommend also citing:
gPlace (CheckM >= 1.3.0), which reproduces pplacer’s placements; please also cite pplacer.
pplacer: Matsen FA, Kodner RB, Armbrust EV. 2010. pplacer: linear time maximum-likelihood and Bayesian phylogenetic placement of sequences onto a fixed reference tree. BMC Bioinformatics 11: doi:10.1186/1471-2105-11-538.
Prodigal: Hyatt D, Locascio PF, Hauser LJ, Uberbacher EC. 2012. Gene and translation initiation site prediction in metagenomic sequences. Bioinformatics 28: 2223–2230.