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To date, no published DNA metabarcoding data processing pipeline exists that is (i) platform independent, (ii) easy to use [incl. graphical user interface (GUI)], (iii) fast (does scale well with dataset size) and (iv) complies with data protection regulations of e.g. environmental agencies. The presented pipeline APSCALE meets these requirements and handles the most common tasks of sequence data processing, such as paired-end merging, primer trimming, quality filtering, clustering and denoising of any popular metabarcoding marker, such as internal transcribed spacer, 16S or cytochrome c oxidase subunit I. APSCALE comes in a command line and a GUI version. The latter provides the user with additional summary statistics options and links to GUI-based downstream applications.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Availability and implementation<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>APSCALE is written in Python, a platform-independent language, and integrates functions of the open-source tools, VSEARCH (Rognes et al., 2016), cutadapt (Martin, 2011) and LULU (Fr\u00f8slev et al., 2017). All modules support multithreading to allow fast processing of larger DNA metabarcoding datasets. 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