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December 1 to 3, 2025

FROGS Days 2025

Join us in Toulouse for three days focused on technical, bioinformatics, and methodological advancements in metabarcoding.
This free symposium, celebrating 10 years of FROGS, will showcase tools, experiences, and future perspectives in a rapidly evolving field.
The event will feature round tables, demonstrations, posters, and networking opportunities, all centered around the practical, innovative, and future-oriented aspects of microbial metabarcoding.

December, 2025

FROGS v5.0 is available

What has changed since the last version :

  • New documentations for using FROGS v5.0
  • New databases are available
  • You need help to use FROGS, you are looking for training
  • New Website
December, 2025

FROGS logo and website change

For FROGS' 10th anniversary, we are updating the logo and website.

July 8 to 11, 2025

JOBIM 2025

Some members of the FROGS team had the opportunity to participate in JOBIM, as well as to present a poster there (click on the arrow to see it).

June, 2023

FROGS v4.1.0 is available

What has changed since the last version : FROGS produces ASV
Modified tools : More readability on the 7 basic steps; FROGS_1 Pre-process; Functional inference; Differential analysis; Affiliation filter

  • New documentations for using FROGS v4.1.0
  • New databases are available
  • You need help to use FROGS, you are looking for training
  • Who uses FROGS?
October, 2022

FROGS v4.0.1 is available

What has changed since the last version : Tools added
Modified tools: Normalisation tool; OTU_filter tool; Affiliation_stat tool; Remove_chimera tool

  • New documentations for using FROGS v4.0.1
  • New databases are available
  • You need help to use FROGS, you are looking for training
  • Who uses FROGS?
June, 2021

FROGS v3.2 is available

What has changed since the last version : Convincing results on ITS data processing, A new SOP dedicated to ITS

  • New documentations for using FROGS v3.2 on Galaxy
  • A redesigned website
  • New databases are available
  • You need help to use FROGS, you are looking for training
April, 2019

FROGS v3.1 is available

What has changed since the last version : Toolshed and Conda repository

  • New databases are available
November, 2018

FROGS v3.0 is available

What has changed since the last version : Modification of the "Preprocess Tool", New graphic charter for HTML outputs, New "ITSx" tool that identifies and extracts ITS regions, New sequence affiliation strategy using needleall software, New affiliation processing tool "Affiliation post-process Tool"

  • New version of FROGS now supports ITS sequences.
  • FROGS 3.0 has just been published on GitHub: link
15 April, 2018

The FROGS article published

Frédéric Escudié, Lucas Auer, Maria Bernard, Mahendra Mariadassou, Laurent Cauquil, Katia Vidal, Sarah Maman, Guillermina Hernandez-Raquet, Sylvie Combes, Géraldine Pascal; FROGS: Find, Rapidly, OTUs with Galaxy Solution, Bioinformatics, Volume 34, Issue 8, 15 April 2018, Pages 1287–1294, https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btx791

January, 2018

In the new Silva version 132, many phyla in bacteria are rearranged following the Genome Taxonomy Database. For more details: Silva release notes

December, 2017

The Silva 132 is now available in FROGS

You can choose between silva 16S, 18S and 23S.