Basic data from metagenome

[MCAE]

Hi Everyone,
i'm new in the 'Bioinformatics world? and i really appreciate if someone can help me to get the basic information from a metagenome (numer of reads, read length, coverga...etc etc)
Rigth now, i started with some analysis on MetaVelvet, but I really don't know where I'm, and, for the moment, i don't have anybody for asking...
Please!!!

greetings....

[colindaven]

It would be helpful if you mentioned what data type you have at the very least !

[MCAE]

Hi
my data is a Metagenome from 454 FLX, the only thing I know is how many reads I've...
Thanks!!

[colindaven]

Still not too helpful - is it a whole genome shotgun metagenome ?

Try MG-RAST for a start.

http://metagenomics.anl.gov/

Alternatively try a BLAST alignment and then use MEGAN.

Or if it's 16S rDNA (?)

Try QIIME.