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SNP- and genome variation-related tools and genomics data analysis resources. Please, contribute and get in touch! See MDmisc notes for other programming and genomics-related notes.

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Variant calling pipelines

  • Koboldt, Daniel C. “Best Practices for Variant Calling in Clinical Sequencing.” Genome Medicine, (December 2020) - Introduction in genomic variant calling, panel/exome/whole genome sequencing technologies (Table 1), preprocessing, analysis (SNVs/indels, mutations, CNVs, SVs, gene fusions, Table 2), gold standard datasets (GIAB), best practices, filtering for each type of genomic variant.

  • crg2 is a research pipeline aimed at discovering clinically relevant variants (SNVs, SVs) in whole genome sequencing data. Snakemake and Conda, runs on PBS. Python, shell. Conda, local installation.

  • DNAscan - a pipeline for DNA-seq analysis to call SNPs, indels, SVs, repeat expansions and viral genetic material. Four parts - alignment (HISAT2, BWA mem), analysis (Freebayes, GATC HC, Manta, Expansion Hunter), annotation (Annovar), report generation. Python, shell. Docker, local installation.

    Paper Iacoangeli, A., A. Al Khleifat, W. Sproviero, A. Shatunov, A. R. Jones, S. L. Morgan, A. Pittman, R. J. Dobson, S. J. Newhouse, and A. Al-Chalabi. “DNAscan: Personal Computer Compatible NGS Analysis, Annotation and Visualisation.” BMC Bioinformatics 20, no. 1 (December 2019): 213. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12859-019-2791-8.
  • MapCaller - map reads and identify genomic variants, indels, inversions, translocations. Based on KART method. Outperforms GATK, Freebayes, Mpileup. C, C++. Conda, local installation.
    Paper Lin, Hsin-Nan, and Wen-Lian Hsu. “MapCaller - An Integrated and Efficient Tool for Short-Read Mapping and Variant Calling Using High-Throughput Sequenced Data.” Preprint. Bioinformatics, September 26, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1101/783605.

Preprocessing tools

  • FixItFelix - realignment of reads in 1.2 Mbp duplicated and 8.04Mbp collapsed genomes in GRCh38 assembly, affecting 33 protein-coding genes, including 12 with medical relevance. A modified GRCh38 reference that includes masked regions and new decoy contigs. Used two benchmarking datasets, improves nearly all metrics.
    Paper Behera, Sairam, Jonathon LeFaive, Peter Orchard, Medhat Mahmoud, Luis F. Paulin, Jesse Farek, Daniela C. Soto, et al. “FixItFelix: Improving Genomic Analysis by Fixing Reference Errors.” Genome Biology 24, no. 1 (February 21, 2023): 31. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-023-02863-7.

  • genomics_general - This is a collection of scripts for a range of genomic data processing and analysis. Processing VCF files; Diversity and divergence analyses in sliding windows; Distance matrix; ABBA-BABA statistics in sliding windows; Trees for sliding windows. Python.

  • alleleCount - Takes a file of locations and a [cr|b]am file and generates a count of coverage of each allele [ACGT] at that location. C, Perl, shell. Docker.

  • BAMsurgeon tools for adding mutations to existing .bam files, used for testing mutation callers. Python, shell.

  • QTLtools - A complete tool set for molecular QTL discovery and analysis. Has mbv mode to match BAM to VCF, PCA, functional enrichment, colocalization analyses, more. C++.

  • PyVCF - A Variant Call Format Parser for Python. Has vcf_melt tool to reformat a VCF into long format. Python.

  • Rust-bio-tools - VCF matching, conversion to text, report, FASTQ split/filter, BAM depth, merging. Rust.

  • SURVIVOR - Toolset for SV simulation, comparison and filtering. C++.

  • VariantQC - VCF quality control tool, part of DISCVRseq toolkit. Uses GATK4 engine. Java wrapper of GATK's VariantEval tool. Input - VCF file and an indexed genome FASTA file. Output - MultiQC-templated report. Java.

    Paper Yan, Melissa Y, Betsy Ferguson, and Benjamin N Bimber. “VariantQC: A Visual Quality Control Report for Variant Evaluation.” Edited by Jonathan Wren. Bioinformatics, July 16, 2019, btz560. https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btz560.

  • vcf-diff - Check for differences between two vcf files

  • vcf-split - Split combined-sample VCF stream into single-sample VCF files. C, shell.

  • vcfR - Manipulate and Visualize VCF Data. R.

  • vcf2tsvpy - Genomic VCF to tab-separated values, by Sigve Nakken. Python.

Depth

  • bamCoverage - BAM to bigWig conversion, part of Deeptools. Python, shell.

  • BAMscale - BAMscale is a one-step tool for either 1) quantifying and normalizing the coverage of peaks or 2) generated scaled BigWig files for easy visualization of commonly used DNA-seq capture based methods. C, R.

  • histoneSig - R package for working with genome files as continuous representations or "signals". R.

  • goleft - a collection of bioinformatics tools distributed under MIT license in a single static binary. covstats - estimate coverage and insert-size statistics on bams by sampling; depth - parallelize calls to samtools in user-defined windows; depthwed - matricize output from depth to n-sites * n-samples; indexcov - quick coverage estimate using only the bam index; indexsplit - generate regions of even data across a cohort (for parallelization); samplename - report samplename(s) from a bam's SM tag. Go.

  • mosdepth - fast BAM/CRAM depth calculation for WGS, exome, or targetted sequencing. Nim, shell.

  • PanDepth - PanDepth, an ultra-fast and efficient genomic tool for coverage calculation

  • perbase - Per-base per-nucleotide depth analysis. Written in Rust, command line.

Genome comparison

  • SyRI (Synteny and Rearrangement Identifier) - whole genome/chromosome assembly comparison tool. Identifies structural and sequence differences, then local sequence differences within rearranged and non-rearraned synthenic regions. Outperforms AsmVar, Smartie-sv, Assemblytics, Sniffles, Picky, LUMPY, on synthetic data. Python. GitHub.
    Paper Goel, Manish, Hequan Sun, Wen-Biao Jiao, and Korbinian Schneeberger. “SyRI: Finding Genomic Rearrangements and Local Sequence Differences from Whole-Genome Assemblies.” Genome Biology 20, no. 1 (December 2019): 277. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-019-1911-0.

  • NAHRwhals - R package and wrapper functions for identifying serial structural variations from genome assemblies. Dotplot visualization.

  • Ragout2 - a reference-assisted assembly tool that works for large and complex genomes. Combines Cactus, a multiple whole-genome aligner, with a new iterative graph simplification algorithm that produces hierarchical synteny blocks on multiple scales. Utilizes information from multple genomes. Infers the evolutionary relationships between the genomes and builds the final assemblies using a genome rearrangement approach. Detects synteny blocks, resolves repeats, chimeric sequences. Accuracy comparable with assemblies from BioNano maps, Hi-C, BAC clones, FISH. Benchmarked against RACA on simulated and experimental (16 mouse genomes) data. See also maf2synteny

    Paper Kolmogorov, Mikhail, Joel Armstrong, Brian J. Raney, Ian Streeter, Matthew Dunn, Fengtang Yang, Duncan Odom, et al. “Chromosome Assembly of Large and Complex Genomes Using Multiple References.” Genome Research 28, no. 11 (November 2018): 1720–32. https://doi.org/10.1101/gr.236273.118.
  • Sibelia - syntheny finder in multiple microbial genomes using iterative de Bruijn graphs. Represents synteny blocks in a hierarchy. Outperforms Mugsy, Multiz, Mauve on synthetic and experimental data. Webserver.
    Paper Minkin, Ilya, Anand Patel, Mikhail Kolmogorov, Nikolay Vyahhi, and Son Pham. “Sibelia: A Scalable and Comprehensive Synteny Block Generation Tool for Closely Related Microbial Genomes.” arXiv, July 30, 2013. http://arxiv.org/abs/1307.7941.

  • syntenyPlotteR - R package to draw syntenic plots in 3 different styles (highway, inferCARs, linear pairwise style)

  • LASTZ - pairwise DNA sequence aligner and plotter. Documentation.

SNP callers

  • Xu, Chang. “A Review of Somatic Single Nucleotide Variant Calling Algorithms for Next-Generation Sequencing Data.” Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, (6 February 2018) - Overview of 46 somatic Single Nucleotide Variant (SNV) caller tools. Pre-processing, variant evaluation, and post-filtering steps. Four categories of algorithms, description of each, and the corresponding tools: matched tumor-normal (position-, haplotype-, mathine learning-based methods, Table 1), single-sample (Table 2, some offer somatic-germline classification), UMI-based (UMI technology, Figure 1, Table 3), and RNA-seq (Technology, issues, Table 4) variant calling. Benchmarking using tools for generating synthetic reads, spike-ins, GiAB, melanoma-normal samples, performance evaluation metrics. Issues in representing complex variants and tools for variant normalization. Deep neural network-based algorithms perform best.

  • ABRA - Assembly Based ReAligner. It uses localized assembly (de Bruijn graph) and global realignment to align reads more accurately, thus improving downstream analysis (detection of indels and complex variants in particular). For exome sequencing, requires targets in BED file. Extended with Cadabra, somatic indel variant caller. Java, C++.

    Paper Mose, Lisle E., Matthew D. Wilkerson, D. Neil Hayes, Charles M. Perou, and Joel S. Parker. “ABRA: Improved Coding Indel Detection via Assembly-Based Realignment.” Bioinformatics 30, no. 19 (October 2014): 2813–15. https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btu376.

  • GATK on Biowulf - A practical introduction to GATK 4 on Biowulf (NIH HPC), by Qi Yu and Wolfgang Resch. Optimized scripts for HPC environment, GitHub

  • HipSTR - short tandem repeat caller, resolving haplotypes. Learns locus-specific PCR stutter models using an EM algorithm, other methods so obtain more robust STR genotypes. Works on Illumina data. Input - BAM files, BED coordinates of pre-defined STRs, FASTA genome. Output - VCF of the STR genotypes. Visualization of genotypes. Works for a variety of data amount/quality. Outperforms lobstr, RepeatSeq, GATK HaplotypeCaller, Platypus, freebayes, SAMtools. Tutorial. C, C++.

    Paper Willems, Thomas, Dina Zielinski, Jie Yuan, Assaf Gordon, Melissa Gymrek, and Yaniv Erlich. “Genome-Wide Profiling of Heritable and de Novo STR Variations.” Nature Methods 14, no. 6 (June 2017): 590–92. https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.4267.
  • RNA-MuTect method to detect somatic mutations from tumor DNA - matched normal RNA samples. Applied to TCGA, GTeX data. Most mutated are sun-exposed skin, esophagus mucosa, lung. Number of mutations in RNA is 5-fold larger than in DNA, mutations depend on coverage. Only half of DNA mutations have sufficient coverage in RNA. Filtering using 1) two aligners, 2) removal of errors based on a site-specific error model, 3) removal of RNA editing sites. Java, shell.
    Paper Yizhak, Keren, François Aguet, Jaegil Kim, Julian M Hess, Kirsten Kübler, Jonna Grimsby, Ruslana Frazer, et al. “RNA Sequence Analysis Reveals Macroscopic Somatic Clonal Expansion across Normal Tissues.” HUMAN GENETICS, 2019, 11. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaw0726
  • Samovar - mosaic SNV calling from single samples sequenced using WGS 10X linked reads technology. Intro into mosaic SNVs, linked reads. Outperforms MuTect2, MosaicHunter. Python, shell.
    Paper Darby, Charlotte A, James R Fitch, Patrick J Brennan, Benjamin J Kelly, Natalie Bir, Vincent Magrini, Jeffrey Leonard, et al. “Samovar: Single-Sample Mosaic SNV Calling with Linked Reads.” Preprint. Genomics, February 25, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1101/560532.

  • slivar - variant expressions, annotation, and filtering, by Brent Pedersen. expr - filter and/or annotate with INFO, trio, sample, group expressions; make-gnotate - make a compressed zip file of annotations for use by slivar; compound-hets - true compound hets using phase-by-inheritance within gene annotations. Nim, binary.

  • Strelka2 - a fast and accurate small variant caller optimized for analysis of germline variation in small cohorts and somatic variation in tumor/normal sample pairs. Tiered haplotype model, selected according to the locus properties (Methods). Multiple improvements, speed-ups. Outperforms GATK4, FreeBayes on SNPs and indel (PrecisionFDA, GIAB datasets, in silico mixtures). C++, Python.

    Paper Kim, Sangtae, Konrad Scheffler, Aaron L. Halpern, Mitchell A. Bekritsky, Eunho Noh, Morten Källberg, Xiaoyu Chen, et al. “Strelka2: Fast and Accurate Calling of Germline and Somatic Variants.” Nature Methods 15, no. 8 (August 2018): 591–94. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-018-0051-x.

  • UNCeqR - Somation mutation prediction by RNA and DNA integration. C.

  • UNMASC - R package for tumor-only variant calling. Filter and annotate tumor-only variant calls through the integration of public database annotations (pools of unmatched normals), clustering, and segmentation (data-driven detection of hard to map regions) to provide the user with a clear characterization of each variant when called against a set of unmatched normal controls (10 sufficient). Data and database at dbGAP. R, C++.

    Paper Little, Paul, Heejoon Jo, Alan Hoyle, Angela Mazul, Xiaobei Zhao, Ashley H Salazar, Douglas Farquhar, et al. “UNMASC: Tumor-Only Variant Calling with Unmatched Normal Controls.” NAR Cancer 3, no. 4 (October 4, 2021): zcab040. https://doi.org/10.1093/narcan/zcab040.
  • Varlociraptor - a unifying statistical model allowing for the detection of SNVs, MNVs, InDels, Inversions, Duplications, Breakends. Explicitly controls FDR. Defines variant calling grammar, allowing for defining all types of variants. Tumor-normal comparison allows for classifying variants into germline, somatic variants. Evaluated on simulated (artificial clones) and real (Venter's genome) data. Outperforms six other variant callers. Can call variants in single samples, in RNA-seq data, FFPE attifact detection. Tweet. dna-seq-varlociraptor - A Snakemake workflow for calling small and structural variants under any kind of scenario (tumor/normal, tumor/normal/relapse, germline, pedigree, populations) via the unified statistical model of Varlociraptor. Rust, Conda installation.
    Paper Köster, Johannes, Louis J. Dijkstra, Tobias Marschall, and Alexander Schönhuth. “[Varlociraptor: Enhancing Sensitivity and Controlling False Discovery Rate in Somatic Indel Discovery](https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-020-01993-6).” Genome Biology 21, no. 1 (December 2020)

RNA-seq SNP callers

  • Liu, Fenglin, Yuanyuan Zhang, Lei Zhang, Ziyi Li, Qiao Fang, Ranran Gao, and Zemin Zhang. "Systematic comparative analysis of single-nucleotide variant detection methods from single-cell RNA sequencing data." Genome Biology, (19 November 2019) - comparison of seven tools for SNP detection in scRNA-seq data. SAMtools, Strelka2, FreeBayes, and CTAT are best.

  • SmartRNASeqCaller - a post-processing pipeline (Python, Nextflow) to reduce false positive calls from RNA-seq. Random Forest model, trained on a mix of 20 features, generic and GATK-specific, 11 selected. GIAB and Neuromics datasets, Analyzis Freeze WGS variant calls used in GTeX and Allele Specific Expression analyses as gold standard. Benchmarked against GATK best practices, SNPiR. Increases precision, minimally affects sensitivity. Nextflow, Docker implementation.

    Paper Bosio, Mattia, Alfonso Valencia, and Salvador Capella-Gutierrez. “SmartRNASeqCaller: Improving Germline Variant Calling from RNAseq.” Preprint. Bioinformatics, June 27, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1101/684993.

Deep learning SNP callers

  • DeepSNV - an R package for detecting clonal and subclonal variants from deeply sequenced clonally heterogeneous cancer data. The deepSNV algorithm is used for a comparative setup with a control experiment of the same loci and uses a beta-binomial model and a likelihood ratio test to discriminate sequencing errors and subclonal SNVs. The shearwater algorithm computes a Bayes classifier based on a beta-binomial model for variant calling with multiple samples for precisely estimating model parameters - such as local error rates and dispersion - and prior knowledge, e.g. from variation data bases such as COSMIC. R.
    Paper Gerstung, M., E. Papaemmanuil, and P. J. Campbell. “[Subclonal Variant Calling with Multiple Samples and Prior Knowledge](https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btt750).” Bioinformatics, (May 1, 2014)
  • DeepVariant is an analysis pipeline that uses a deep neural network to call genetic variants from next-generation DNA sequencing data. CNN trained to detect SNPs. Inception v2 architecture. Outperforms GATK and others in FDA challenge, GIB data. Docker/Singularity CPU and GPU versions, local and cloud compatible. Tweet 1, Tweet 2, GitHub repo. Python, C++. Docker.
    Paper Poplin, Ryan, Pi-Chuan Chang, David Alexander, Scott Schwartz, Thomas Colthurst, Alexander Ku, Dan Newburger, et al. “[Creating a Universal SNP and Small Indel Variant Caller with Deep Neural Networks,](https://doi.org/10.1101/092890)” March 20, 2018
  • NeuSomatic - Convolutional neural network (9 layers) for somatic mutations calling. Reads within 7bp window around candidate SNP are extracted, realigned, summarized into matrices for tumor-normal samples, used for classifying mutation type, length, position. Tested on GiB samples and on DREAM datasets. Comparison with other SNP callers. Python, C++. Conda.
    Paper Sahraeian, Sayed Mohammad Ebrahim, Ruolin Liu, Bayo Lau, Marghoob Mohiyuddin, and Hugo Y. K. Lam. “Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Accurate Somatic Mutation Detection,” September 4, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1101/393801.

SNP annotations

  • atSNP - search for effects of SNPs on transcription factor binding. DB of 37 billion variant-motif pairs. Search by SNP IDs, window of SNPs, genomic location, gene, transcription factor.
    Paper Shin, Sunyoung, Rebecca Hudson, Christopher Harrison, Mark Craven, and Sündüz Keleş. “AtSNP Search: A Web Resource for Statistically Evaluating Influence of Human Genetic Variation on Transcription Factor Binding.” Edited by John Hancock. Bioinformatics, December 8, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/bty1010.
  • Cancer Genome Interpreter - annotation and interpretation of cancer genome variants. A compiled Catalog of Cancer Genes involved in the onset and progression of different types of cancer, obtained via different methods and from different sources. 837 genes with evidence of a tumorigenic role in 193 different cancer types. Catalog of Validated Oncogenic Mutations - protein-affecting mutations (PAMs) that occur in genes of the Catalog of Cancer Genes. The Cancer Biomarkers database, an expanded collection of genomic biomarkers of anti-cancer drug response on 1624 genomic biomarkers of response (sensitivity, resistance, or toxicity) to 310 drugs across 130 types of cancer. The Cancer Bioactivities database of 20,243 chemical compound–protein product interactions that may support novel research applications.
    Paper Tamborero, David, Carlota Rubio-Perez, Jordi Deu-Pons, Michael P. Schroeder, Ana Vivancos, Ana Rovira, Ignasi Tusquets et al. "Cancer Genome Interpreter annotates the biological and clinical relevance of tumor alterations." Genome medicine, (28 March 2018) https://doi.org/10.1186/s13073-018-0531-8
  • CIViC - Clinical Interpretation of Variants in Cancer database, community curated resource. Data releases Supports variant interpretation guidelines, interfaces with other databases. CIViCmine - Text mined biomarkers in cancer for curation into the CIViC database. Documentation, API, Youtube, GitHub
    Paper Krysiak, Kilannin, Arpad M Danos, Jason Saliba, Joshua F McMichael, Adam C Coffman, Susanna Kiwala, Erica K Barnell, et al. “CIViCdb 2022: Evolution of an Open-Access Cancer Variant Interpretation Knowledgebase.” Nucleic Acids Research, November 14, 2022, gkac979. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkac979.

  • clinvar - tools to convert ClinVar data into a tab-delimited flat file, and also provides that resulting tab-delimited flat file.

  • ConsHMM - genome segmentation into 100 conservation states based on a 100 species DNA sequence alignment. Hidden Markov Model, extension of ChromHMM. Compared with 12 other scores (CADD, CDTS, DANN, Eigen, Eigen-PC, FATHMM-XF, FIRE, fitCons, GERP++, PhastCons, PhyloP, REMM, also LINSIGHT, FunSeq2). Clustering, GO enrichment reveals distinct functionality. hg19 single nucleotide scores. Download. Java, Python. Conda.

    Paper Arneson, Adriana, and Jason Ernst. “Systematic Discovery of Conservation States for Single-Nucleotide Annotation of the Human Genome.” Communications Biology 2, no. 1 (December 2019): 248. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-019-0488-1.
  • DoCM - database of manually curated cancer SNPs from 876 publications and databases. API to get the data, downloads in other formats.
    Paper Ainscough, Benjamin J., Malachi Griffith, Adam C. Coffman, Alex H. Wagner, Jason Kunisaki, Mayank Nk Choudhary, Joshua F. McMichael, et al. “DoCM: A Database of Curated Mutations in Cancer.” Nature Methods 13, no. 10 (September 29, 2016): 806–7. https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.4000.
  • echtvar - fast simultaneous annotation and filtering genetic variants using 32-bit integer encoding of population variants and annotation fields (gnomAD, CADD) into a compressed archive. Input: VCF/BCF files, chromosome, and a JSON5 configuration. Faster/more efficient than slivar, vcfanno, bcftools, snpSift. Examples of filtering somatic variants with dbNSFP, whole genome recessive germline variants and somatic variants. Rust.
    Paper Pedersen, Brent S, and Jeroen de Ridder. “Echtvar: Compressed Variant Representation for Rapid Annotation and FIltering of SNPs and Indels,” n.d.
  • FENRIR - Tissue-specific enhancer functional networks for associating SNPs in distal regulatory regions to disease. Integrates thousands of disparate epigenetic and functional genomics datasets to infer tissue-specific functional relationships between en- hancers for 140 diverse human tissues and cell types, providing a regulatory-region-centric approach to systematically identify disease-associated enhancers. A Bayesian integration model that creates tissue-specific enhancer functional networks and, second, a network-based machine-learning model (elastic net) that prioritizes disease-enhancer association in a tissue-specific manner. Outperforms EMERGE, applied to autism variants. GitHub.
    Paper Chen, Xi, Jian Zhou, Ran Zhang, Aaron K. Wong, Christopher Y. Park, Chandra L. Theesfeld, and Olga G. Troyanskaya. “Tissue-Specific Enhancer Functional Networks for Associating Distal Regulatory Regions to Disease.” Cell Systems 12, no. 4 (April 2021): 353-362.e6. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cels.2021.02.002.
  • FORGEdb - web and standalone tool for genomic variant prioritization. Integrates multiplw databases, identifies regulatory elements (ENCODE, Roadmap, etc.), TFBSs, target genes (enhancer-promoter loops, Activity-by-contact (ABC), etc.) for over 37M variants. A combined score of 5 lines of evidence (DNAse, Histone mark, TF motif, ABC, eQTL) that correlate with expression-modulating variants. API, LDlinkR R package for programmatic access. GitHub.
    Paper Breeze, Charles E., Eric Haugen, María Gutierrez-Arcelus, Xiaozheng Yao, Andrew Teschendorff, Stephan Beck, Ian Dunham, et al. “FORGEdb: A Tool for Identifying Candidate Functional Variants and Uncovering Target Genes and Mechanisms for Complex Diseases.” Genome Biology 25, no. 1 (January 2, 2024): 3. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-023-03126-1.
  • FUMA - Functional Mapping and Annotation of GWAS using 43 scRNA-seq datasets (human and mouse). MAGMA Cell type-specific enrichment. Applied to 26 GWAS disorders. Download processed data.
    Paper Watanabe, Kyoko, Maša Umićević Mirkov, Christiaan A. de Leeuw, Martijn P. van den Heuvel, and Danielle Posthuma. “Genetic Mapping of Cell Type Specificity for Complex Traits.” Nature Communications 10, no. 1 (December 2019): 3222. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11181-1.
  • ONCOTATOR - Cancer-oriented annotation of SNPs. 14 data sources. Goal - to identify somatic SNPs, eliminate germline.
    Paper Ramos, Alex H., Lee Lichtenstein, Manaswi Gupta, Michael S. Lawrence, Trevor J. Pugh, Gordon Saksena, Matthew Meyerson, and Gad Getz. “Oncotator: Cancer Variant Annotation Tool.” Human Mutation 36, no. 4 (April 2015): E2423-2429. https://doi.org/10.1002/humu.22771.
  • OpenCRAVAT - Open Custom Ranked Analysis of Variants Toolkit, extension of the Cancer-Related Analysis of Variants Toolkit (CRAVAT). Command-line and GUI interface, extensive resource catalog. Input: VCF, annotated VCF, basic tabular file format, dbSNP identifiers, 23andMe, and Ancestry.com. Output: viewer with 4 tabs: Summary, Variant, Gene, and Filter. Python.
    Paper Pagel, Kymberleigh A., Rick Kim, Kyle Moad, Ben Busby, Lily Zheng, Collin Tokheim, Michael Ryan, and Rachel Karchin. "Integrated informatics analysis of cancer-related variants." JCO clinical cancer informatics 4 (March 4, 2020): 310-317. https://doi.org/10.1200/cci.19.00132
  • RegTools - tools o integrate somatic variants from genomic data with splice junctions from bulk or single cell transcriptomic data to identify cis-acting variants that may cause aberrant splicing. Three sub-modules: a variants module to annotate genomic variant calls for their potential splicing relevance, a junctions module to analyze aligned RNA-seq data to extract and annotate splice junctions, and a cis-splice-effects module that associates these variants and junctions to identify potential splice-associated variants. Compared with SpliceAI, MiSplice, Veridical, SAVNet. Applied to over 9,000 tumor samples (TCGA, MGI), used the experimentally validated 10 splice-site-creating variants that Jayasinghe et al. Input - BAM, GTF, VCF, configurable splice-region window definition. C++ implementation, GitHub, Docker.
    Paper Cotto, Kelsy C, Yang-Yang Feng, Avinash Ramu, Megan Richters, Sharon Freshour, Zachary L Skidmore, Huiming Xia, et al. “RegTools: Integrated Analysis of Genomic and Transcriptomic Data for the Discovery of Splice-Associated Variants in Cancer.” Preprint. Bioinformatics, October 5, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1101/436634.
  • The Personal Cancer Genome Reporter (PCGR) is a stand-alone software package for functional annotation and translation of individual cancer genomes for precision cancer medicine. Currently, it interprets both somatic SNVs/InDels and copy number aberrations. The software extends basic gene and variant annotations from the Ensembl’s Variant Effect Predictor (VEP) with oncology-relevant, up-to-date annotations retrieved flexibly through vcfanno, and produces interactive HTML reports intended for clinical interpretation. NOTE: If you also want to interrogate the clinical impact of germline variants in the same individual, try the accompanying tool Cancer Predisposition Sequencing Reporter (CPSR). R, Python.
    Paper Sigve Nakken, Ghislain Fournous, Daniel Vodák, Lars Birger Aaasheim, Ola Myklebost, and Eivind Hovig. [Personal Cancer Genome Reporter: variant interpretation report for precision oncology](https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btx817) (2017). Bioinformatics
  • PORI (Platform for Oncogenomic Reporting and Interpretation) - analytical framework for reporting and interpreting somatic variants in cancer, prioritizes therapeutically informative alterations. Two components - GraphKB (a curated (resolving aliases, generalisms, etc., into controlled vocabulary) graph-based knowledge base integrating multiple data sources, API, web, Python) and IPR (Integrated Pipeline Reports, API, web, Python). Flexible input variant call formats, patient data. Demo.
    Paper Reisle, Caralyn, Laura M. Williamson, Erin Pleasance, Anna Davies, Brayden Pellegrini, Dustin W. Bleile, Karen L. Mungall, et al. “A Platform for Oncogenomic Reporting and Interpretation.” Nature Communications 13, no. 1 (December 2022): 756. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28348-y.

  • Seattle - The SeattleSeq Annotation server provides annotation of SNVs (single-nucleotide variations) and small indels, both known and novel. This annotation includes dbSNP rs IDs, gene names and accession numbers, variation functions (e.g. missense), protein positions and amino-acid changes, conservation scores, HapMap frequencies, PolyPhen predictions, and clinical association

  • snpEff - a variant annotation and effect prediction tool

  • The Variant Interpretation for Cancer Consortium Meta-Knowledgebase. Aggregate interpretations covering 3,437 unique variants in 415 genes, 357 diseases, and 791 drugs. Validation using GENIE database.

    Paper Wagner, Alex Handler, Brian Walsh, Georgia Mayfield, David Tamborero, Dmitriy Sonkin, Kilannin Krysiak, Jordi Deu Pons, et al. “A Harmonized Meta-Knowledgebase of Clinical Interpretations of Cancer Genomic Variants,” July 11, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1101/366856.
  • VARAdb - a comprehensive human variation annotation database, focus on noncoding regulatory . A total of 577,283,813 variations, five annotation sections including ‘Variation information’, ‘Regulatory information’, ‘Related genes’, ‘Chromatin accessibility’ and ‘Chromatin interaction’. The information section includes motif changes, risk SNPs, LD SNPs, eQTLs, clinical variant-drug-gene pairs, sequence conservation, somatic mutations, enhancers, super enhancers, promoters, TFs, ChromHMM states, histone modifications, ATAC accessible regions and chromatin interactions from Hi-C and ChIA-PET. Two types of variation related genes: 1) variation that sets in enhancer may associate with enhancer target genes predicted by Lasso method; 2) variation related genes based on distance. Can prioritize variations based on score, annotate novel variants and perform pathway downstream analysis. VCF annotation, one section at a time. Chromosome-specific downloads.
    Paper Pan, Qi, Yue-Juan Liu, Xue-Feng Bai, Xiao-Le Han, Yong Jiang, Bo Ai, Shan-Shan Shi, et al. “[VARAdb: A Comprehensive Variation Annotation Database for Human](https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkaa922),” Nucleic Acids Research, 8 January 2021

  • VAtools - A set of tools to annotate VCF files with expression and readcount data. Python. vatools.org - codumentation.

  • VCF-plotein - graphical, interactive interptetation of exome sequencing data in VCF format. Includes major databases, from gnomAD, COSMIC to Human Phenotype Ontology and GO terms. Shiny app, GitHub.

    Paper Ossio, Raul, O Isaac Garcia-Salinas, Diego Said Anaya-Mancilla, Jair S Garcia-Sotelo, Luis A Aguilar, David J Adams, and Carla Daniela Robles-Espinoza. “[VCF/Plotein: Visualisation and Prioritisation of Genomic Variants from Human Exome Sequencing Projects](https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btz458).” Bioinformatics, June 4, 2019
  • vcfanno - annotate a VCF with other VCFs/BEDs/tabixed files. Go, Python, binary.
    Paper Pedersen, Brent S., Ryan M. Layer, and Aaron R. Quinlan. “Vcfanno: Fast, Flexible Annotation of Genetic Variants.” Genome Biology 17, no. 1 (December 2016). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-016-0973-5.

SNP signatures

  • deconstructSigs - deconstructSigs aims to determine the contribution of known mutational processes to a tumor sample. By using deconstructSigs, one can: Determine the weights of each mutational signature contributing to an individual tumor sample; Plot the reconstructed mutational profile (using the calculated weights) and compare to the original input sample. Data from Alexandrov, COSMIC, others. R implementation.
    Paper Rosenthal, Rachel, Nicholas McGranahan, Javier Herrero, Barry S. Taylor, and Charles Swanton. “DeconstructSigs: Delineating Mutational Processes in Single Tumors Distinguishes DNA Repair Deficiencies and Patterns of Carcinoma Evolution.” Genome Biology 17 (February 22, 2016): 31. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-016-0893-4.

  • MutationalPatterns - R package to evaluate and visualize a multitude of mutational patterns in base substitution catalogues of e.g. healthy samples, tumour samples, or DNA-repair deficient cells. The package covers a wide range of patterns including: mutational signatures, transcriptional and replicative strand bias, lesion segregation, genomic distribution and association with genomic features, which are collectively meaningful for studying the activity of mutational processes. The package works with single nucleotide variants (SNVs), insertions and deletions (Indels), double base substitutions (DBSs) and larger multi base substitutions (MBSs). R.

  • sigminer - Genomic Alteration Signature Analysis, by Shixiang Wang, novel and known signature extraction, visualization. GitHub. R. sigminer.prediction - Train and Predict Cancer Subtype with Keras Model based on Mutational Signatures.

  • SignatureAnalyzer - finding mutation patterns in multiple samples, NMF. Part of CGA Cancer Genome Analysis tools.

  • SigProfilerAssignment - Assignment of known mutational signatures to individual samples and individual somatic mutations, Python.

  • SparseSignatures, R package - De Novo Mutational Signature Discovery in Tumor Genomes using SparseSignatures.

    Paper Lal, Avantika, Keli Liu, Robert Tibshirani, Arend Sidow, and Daniele Ramazzotti. "De novo mutational signature discovery in tumor genomes using SparseSignatures." PLoS computational biology 17, no. 6 (2021): e1009119. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009119

SNP pathogenicity scores

  • ClinPred - pathogenicity prediction for all nonsynonymous SNPs. Trained on ClinVar, validated on nine other databases. Random forest and gradient boosted decision tree, comparison with other machine learning algorithms. Downloadable scores for all nonsynonymous SNPs.
    Paper Alirezaie, Najmeh, Kristin D. Kernohan, Taila Hartley, Jacek Majewski, and Toby Dylan Hocking. “ClinPred: Prediction Tool to Identify Disease-Relevant Nonsynonymous Single-Nucleotide Variants.” The American Journal of Human Genetics 103, no. 4 (October 2018): 474–83. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajhg.2018.08.005.
  • regBase - Prediction of regulatory impact of variants outside of protein-coding regions, human. Trained on prediction scores from 23 tools, Gradient Tree Boosting, thorough training and evaluation. hg19 predictions are available for download. Python.
    Paper Zhang, Shijie, Yukun He, Huanhuan Liu, Haoyu Zhai, Dandan Huang, Xianfu Yi, Xiaobao Dong, et al. “RegBase: Whole Genome Base-Wise Aggregation and Functional Prediction for Human Non-Coding Regulatory Variants.” Nucleic Acids Research, September 12, 2019, gkz774. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkz774.
  • SEMpl - predict the impact of SNPs on TF binding. Uses ChIP-seq data, DNAse-seq, and PWMs. Simulate all possible SNPs in PWMs, estimate effect on ChIP signal. C, C++.
    Paper Nishizaki, Sierra S, Natalie Ng, Shengcheng Dong, Robert S Porter, Cody Morterud, Colten Williams, Courtney Asman, Jessica A Switzenberg, and Alan P Boyle. “Predicting the Effects of SNPs on Transcription Factor Binding Affinity.” Edited by John Hancock. Bioinformatics, August 2, 2019, btz612. https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btz612.

SNP visualization, clustering

  • CONQUER - an R package for visualizing individual and multiple SNPs in epigenomic context, omics expression values, analysis of QTL genes for pathway enrichment. Interactive D3 graphics, circos plots. Similar functionality - DEPICT Input - rsIDs.
    Paper Bouland, Gerard A, Joline W J Beulens, Joey Nap, and Arnaud Zaldumbide. “[CONQUER: An Interactive Toolbox to Understand Functional Consequences of GWAS Hits](https://doi.org/10.1093/nargab/lqaa085),” NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics, October 27, 2021, 7.

  • CMplot - circular and regular (horizontal) Manhattan Plots, chromosome density plots, highly customizable.

  • gwasTools - A collection of R scripts for exploring and plotting GWAS results. Visualization examples

  • gw - A fast browser and annotation tool for genomic sequencing data

  • gpart - R package for defining LD blocks (Big-LD algorithm), and visualizing them.

    Paper - Ah Kim, Sun, Myriam Brossard, Delnaz Roshandel, Andrew D Paterson, Shelley B Bull, and Yun Joo Yoo. “Gpart: Human Genome Partitioning and Visualization of High-Density SNP Data by Identifying Haplotype Blocks.” Edited by Alfonso Valencia. Bioinformatics, May 9, 2019, btz308. https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btz308.

  • maftools - Summarize, Analyze and Visualize MAF files from TCGA or in house studies. GitHub. R.

  • manhattanly - Interactive Manhattan plots. R.

  • mutcraft - R tools to mine & craft somatic mutations from cancer genomes. R.

  • MutScan - Detect and visualize target mutations by scanning FastQ files directly. C, C++.

  • samplot - Plot structural variant signals from many BAMs and CRAMs. Python.

  • ttplot - Tao Yan's Plot Toolkit, plots LD Heatmap, Manhattan plot. R.

  • VarClust - A Python package for clustering of single nucleotide variants from high-through seqencing data. Works on single-sample VCF files.

  • vcf2circos - Python plotly circos visualization from VCF, along with genes, structural variants, CNVs.

  • VIVA - VCF visualization tool, written in Julia. Competing tools - vcfR, IGVZ, Genome Browser, Genome Savant, svviz, jvarkit - JfxNgs. Input - VCF file and, optionally, variant list, sample list, sample metadata. Filtering. Heatmap visualization. Julia.

    Paper Tollefson, George A, Jessica Schuster, Fernando Gelin, Ashok Ragavendran, Isabel Restrepo, Paul Stey, James Padbury, and Alper Uzun. “VIVA (VIsualization of VAriants): A VCF File Visualization Tool.” BioRxiv, March 28, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1101/589879.

SNP, GWAS databases

  • CAUSALdb - curated summary statistics for GWASs, mapped to MeSH terms, Manhattan plot visualization. Download available.
    Paper Wang, Jianhua, Dandan Huang, Yao Zhou, Hongcheng Yao, Huanhuan Liu, Sinan Zhai, Chengwei Wu, et al. “CAUSALdb: A Database for Disease/Trait Causal Variants Identified Using Summary Statistics of Genome-Wide Association Studies.” Nucleic Acids Research, November 6, 2019, gkz1026. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkz1026.
  • GWASatlas resource, analysis of pleiotropy, genetic architecture of complex traits.
    Paper Watanabe, Kyoko, Sven Stringer, Oleksandr Frei, Masa Umićević Mirkov, Tinca J.C. Polderman, Sophie van der Sluis, Ole A. Andreassen, Benjamin M. Neale, and Danielle Posthuma. “A Global View of Pleiotropy and Genetic Architecture in Complex Traits.” BioRxiv, January 1, 2018, 500090. https://doi.org/10.1101/500090.
  • GWAScentral - central GWAS repository. Browser, download.
    Paper Beck, Tim, Tom Shorter, and Anthony J Brookes. “GWAS Central: A Comprehensive Resource for the Discovery and Comparison of Genotype and Phenotype Data from Genome-Wide Association Studies.” Nucleic Acids Research, October 15, 2019, gkz895. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkz895.

GWAS pipelines

  • Eagle - long-range phasing, improves the following imputation. Benchmarked against Beagle, HAPI-UR, SHAPEIT2, faster, similar or better phasing accuracy.
    Paper Loh, Po-Ru, Pier Francesco Palamara, and Alkes L Price. “Fast and Accurate Long-Range Phasing in a UK Biobank Cohort.” Nature Genetics 48, no. 7 (July 2016): 811–16. https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.3571.
  • IMPUTE2 - prephasing framework, improves running time and accuracy of imputation step. In contrast to IMPUTE1 analytical integration strategy, IMPUTE2 uses a haplotype sampling strategy.
    Paper Howie, Bryan, Christian Fuchsberger, Matthew Stephens, Jonathan Marchini, and Gonçalo R Abecasis. “Fast and Accurate Genotype Imputation in Genome-Wide Association Studies through Pre-Phasing.” Nature Genetics 44, no. 8 (August 2012): 955–59. https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.2354.
  • GCTA - genome-wide complex trait analysis testing, estimates the variance explained by all SNPs on a chromosome or the whole genome for a complex trait, instead of testing the association of any particular SNP. Five function types: data management (PLINK, MACH formats), estimation of the genetic relationships from SNPs, mixed linear model analysis of variance explained, estimation of linkage disequilibrium, GWAS simulation.
    Paper Yang, Jian, S. Hong Lee, Michael E. Goddard, and Peter M. Visscher. “GCTA: A Tool for Genome-Wide Complex Trait Analysis.” The American Journal of Human Genetics 88, no. 1 (January 2011): 76–82. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajhg.2010.11.011.
  • GLIMPSE - genotype likelihoods imputation and phasing method. Low WGS (1X) outperforms SNP arrays and is appropriate for GWASs and ancestry inference. Input - a matrix of genotype likelihoods from low-coverage sequencing data. Iterative genotype imputation and haplotype phasing with a Gibbs sampling procedure. Outperforms Beagle, LOIMPUTE, STITCH, GeneImp. GitHub. Tutorial 1, tutorial 2, tutorial 3.
    Paper Rubinacci, Simone, Diogo M. Ribeiro, Robin J. Hofmeister, and Olivier Delaneau. “Efficient Phasing and Imputation of Low-Coverage Sequencing Data Using Large Reference Panels.” Nature Genetics 53, no. 1 (January 2021): 120–26. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-020-00756-0. Chat, Vylyny, Robert Ferguson, Leah Morales, and Tomas Kirchhoff. “Ultra Low-Coverage Whole-Genome Sequencing as an Alternative to Genotyping Arrays in Genome-Wide Association Studies.” Frontiers in Genetics 12 (February 15, 2022): 790445. https://doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2021.790445.
  • Michigan Imputation Server - phasing an imputation using Eagle2 and minimac3, outperforms Beagle, IMPUTE2.
    Paper Das, Sayantan, Lukas Forer, Sebastian Schönherr, Carlo Sidore, Adam E Locke, Alan Kwong, Scott I Vrieze, et al. “Next-Generation Genotype Imputation Service and Methods.” Nature Genetics 48, no. 10 (October 2016): 1284–87. https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.3656.
  • SHAPEIT4 - Segmented HAPlotype Estimation & Imputation Tool. Haplotype phasing, allows integrating external phasing information (large reference panels, pre-phased variants, long sequencing reads). SNP arrays of sequencing data, fast running time, scalable. Novel methods include (1) the Li and Stephens model to capture long-range haplotype sharing between individuals, (2) the Positional Burrows-Wheeler Transform (PBWT), (3) the compact representation of the solution space. Outperforms SHAPEIT3, Eagle2, Beagle5, tested on UK Biobank, GIAB data. Website
    Paper Delaneau, Olivier, Jean-François Zagury, Matthew R. Robinson, Jonathan L. Marchini, and Emmanouil T. Dermitzakis. “Accurate, Scalable and Integrative Haplotype Estimation.” Nature Communications 10, no. 1 (December 2019): 5436. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13225-y.
  • Tractor - a statistical framework for GWAS analysis considering admixed individuals (local ancestry inference, LAI, estimated using RFMix2). Tested on simulated and experimental two-way admixed African-European cohorts. Generates accurate ancestry-specific effect-size estimates and p-values, improves power. It is generally not necessary to include local ancestry in a GWAS model when there is no difference in the estimated effect size between ancestry groups. Post-QC - an automated pipeline for post-genotyping QC, harmonization, phasing, and LA inference. ancestry_pipeline - helper scripts for inferring local ancestry, performing ancestry-specific PCA, make painted karyogram plots. Scripts to reproduce the paper. The Tractor pipeline is implemented as scrips and Jupyter notebools on GitHub. snowcat - Code Alternative for TRACTOR, by Andrey Shabalin.
    Paper Atkinson, Elizabeth G., Adam X. Maihofer, Masahiro Kanai, Alicia R. Martin, Konrad J. Karczewski, Marcos L. Santoro, Jacob C. Ulirsch, et al. “Tractor Uses Local Ancestry to Enable the Inclusion of Admixed Individuals in GWAS and to Boost Power.” Nature Genetics 53, no. 2 (February 2021): 195–204. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-020-00766-y.

Ancestry

  • AEon - ancestry estimation tool on the 26 reference populations of the 1000 genomes project. Input: VCF/BCF files. Output: CSV, visualization of the first three PC components. Reference alleles included (128097 ancestry-informatice loci). Uses ADMIXTURE-like model by maximum likelihood, identical results, fast, memory efficient. Python. Docker.
    Paper Warren, Naomi M., and Mark Pinese. "AEon: A global genetic ancestry estimation tool." bioRxiv (2024): 2024-06. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.06.18.599246
  • EthSEQ - R package for ancestry analysis supporting BAM, VCF, and GDS files. Provides models for continental-level ancestry analysis, accepts models in GDS format for other types. Basic visualization capabilities (2D and 3D PCA plots). Predictions for TCGA, example output.
    Paper Dalfovo, Davide, and Alessandro Romanel. “Analysis of Genetic Ancestry from NGS Data Using EthSEQ.” Current Protocols 3, no. 2 (February 2023): e663. https://doi.org/10.1002/cpz1.663.
  • snvstory - ancestry inference at subcontinental level (36 populations). Three independent machine learning approaches (XGBools on gnomAD, SNV on 1kGP and SGDP). Input - GATK-processed VCF files. Related samples removed following KING analysis. Feature importance analysis (SHAP) prioritizes ancestry-associated genes (Fig. 3, Table S2 lists top 20). Exonic regions are as good as whole genome data. Compared with ADMIXTURE and RFMix, similar performance.
    Paper Bollas, Audrey E., Andrei Rajkovic, Defne Ceyhan, Jeffrey B. Gaither, Elaine R. Mardis, and Peter White. “SNVstory: Inferring Genetic Ancestry from Genome Sequencing Data.” BMC Bioinformatics 25, no. 1 (February 20, 2024): 76. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12859-024-05703-y.
  • GRAF-pop - a distance-based ancestry inference method used by dbGAP, uses 10K but works with as low as 150 SNPs. Barycentric coordinates, directly interpretable. Outperforms EIGENSTRAT, FastPCA, FlashPCA, especially when genotypes are sparse. SNPweights performs poorly.
    Paper Jin, Yumi, Alejandro A Schaffer, Michael Feolo, J Bradley Holmes, and Brandi L Kattman. “GRAF-Pop: A Fast Distance-Based Method To Infer Subject Ancestry from Multiple Genotype Datasets Without Principal Components Analysis.” G3 Genes|Genomes|Genetics 9, no. 8 (August 1, 2019): 2447–61. https://doi.org/10.1534/g3.118.200925.
  • ADMIXTURE - ancestry estimation using a model-based approach. Similar model as in STRUCTURE, FRAPPE, detailed description of model similarities and differences, fast numerical optimization algorithm. Contrasted with PCA-based EIGENSTRAT, STRUCTURE, nearly the same speed (as EIGENSTRAT) and performance on experimental and simulated data. Binaries for Linux and Mac. Manual.
    Paper Alexander, David H., John Novembre, and Kenneth Lange. “Fast Model-Based Estimation of Ancestry in Unrelated Individuals.” Genome Research 19, no. 9 (September 2009): 1655–64. https://doi.org/10.1101/gr.094052.109.
  • AKT - ancestry and kinship toolkit by Illumina team. Detects related samples, ancestry, calculate correlation between variants, clustering, Mendel consistency. Input: multi-sample BCF file, no thinning required. Pre-built hg19 and hg38 1000 genomes PCA coordinates, projecton of samples on them, visualization. Algorithms and results are similar to PLINK, KING, faster. Documentation. C++, command line.
    Paper Arthur, Rudy, Ole Schulz-Trieglaff, Anthony J. Cox, and Jared O’Connell. “AKT: Ancestry and Kinship Toolkit.” Bioinformatics 33, no. 1 (January 1, 2017): 142–44. https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btw576.
  • AIPS - Ancestry Inference using Principal Component analysis and Spatial analysis, R package. Distance-based, incorporates an Inverse Distance Weighted (IDW) interpolation method from spatial analysis. Compared with EIGENSTRAT, STRUCTURE, fastSTRUCTURE, and ADMIXTURE (each briefly described). AIPS and EIGENSTRAT principal components and eigenvalues are highly correlated (close to 1). R.
    Paper Byun, Jinyoung, Younghun Han, Ivan P. Gorlov, Jonathan A. Busam, Michael F. Seldin, and Christopher I. Amos. “Ancestry Inference Using Principal Component Analysis and Spatial Analysis: A Distance-Based Analysis to Account for Population Substructure.” BMC Genomics 18, no. 1 (December 2017): 789. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-017-4166-8.

  • EIGENSTRAT method, FAQ. GitHub source code, Linux support, C.

  • EthSEQ - Ethnicity Annotation from Whole-Exome and Targeted Sequencing Data. Input - reference genotype data of individuals with known enthnicity (e.g., 1000 genomes) and either BAM files or VCF data. PCA using SNPRelate R package. Compared with fastSTRUCTURE. Multi-step refinement improves performance. 2000 SNPs are sufficient to each more than 98% precision. R package.

    Paper Romanel, Alessandro, Tuo Zhang, Olivier Elemento, and Francesca Demichelis. “EthSEQ: Ethnicity Annotation from Whole Exome Sequencing Data.” Edited by Oliver Stegle. Bioinformatics 33, no. 15 (August 1, 2017): 2402–4. https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btx165.
  • FastPCA - population stratification by genotype, identifying SNPs differentiating subpopulations. Uses random matrix theory (blanczos method) to approximate top PCs, reduced time and memory to linear scaling with the number of indivisuals. Compared with smartpca, PLINK2-pca, flashpca. Accuracy assessment on simulated data, nearly identical to PLINK2-pca. Combined witn SNPweights annotations. Applied to a GERA cohort of over 60K EAs genotyped on over 670K SNP array, filtered by QC (no sex, close relatedness, non european, non-autosomal, rare variants) and Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium test and several rounds of LD pruning. Identified 5 subpopulations. C++, R.
    Paper Galinsky, Kevin J., Gaurav Bhatia, Po-Ru Loh, Stoyan Georgiev, Sayan Mukherjee, Nick J. Patterson, and Alkes L. Price. “Fast Principal-Component Analysis Reveals Convergent Evolution of ADH1B in Europe and East Asia.” The American Journal of Human Genetics 98, no. 3 (March 2016): 456–72. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajhg.2015.12.022.
  • Gnomix - local ancestry inference (LAI) method, whole genome, higher accuracy, speed. Two stages: a set of classifiers to predict ancestry within genomic windows (Covariance reduction string kernel CovRSK performs best, others - tree-based (RF, XGBoost, etc.), linear (logistic regression, LDA, etc.), SVM, kNN) and Gnofix algorithm for smoothing, authomatic phasing. Outperforms RXMix, ELA, Loter. Applied to reconstruct LAI of dogs. Pretrained models, including human, are available.
    Paper Hilmarsson, Helgi, Arvind S. Kumar, Richa Rastogi, Carlos D. Bustamante, Daniel Mas Montserrat, and Alexander G. Ioannidis. “High Resolution Ancestry Deconvolution for Next Generation Genomic Data.” Preprint. Genomics, September 21, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.09.19.460980.
  • Neural ADMIXTURE - fast autoencoder network implementing ADMIXTURE principles to decompose genomes into fractional cluster assignments with each cluster representing a vector of DNA marker frequencies. Analog - NMF implemented as autoencoder. SNPs are encoded as 0, 1. Multi-head Neural ADMIXTURE combines multiple decoders to simultaneously obtain different clusters (aka ADMIXTURE runs with different priors for numbers of clusters). Encoders can be nonlinear, decoder - linear to help interpretability. Binary cross entropy loss function to minimize. Compared with ADMIXTURE, AIStructure, TeraStructure, HaploNet. PyTorch implementation.
    Paper Mantes, Albert Dominguez, Daniel Mas Montserrat, Carlos D. Bustamante, Xavier Giró-i-Nieto, and Alexander G. Ioannidis. “Neural ADMIXTURE: Rapid Population Clustering with Autoencoders.” Preprint. Genomics, June 28, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.06.27.450081.
  • RFMix - local ancestry inference (LAI), a discriminative approach that models ancestry along an admixed chromosome given observed haplotype sequences of reference ancestry (known or inferred). Phased chromosomes from reference populations (HapMap3) are divided into windows and, within each window, a random forest is trained to distinguish ancestry by using reference data and generates a fractional vote for each ancestry that are summed producing posterior ancestry probabilities within each window. These posterior probabilities are used for determining the most likely sequence of ancestry across windows via MAP inference. Phasing using Beagle. Outperforms LAMP-HAP, SupportMix. Manual.
    Paper Maples, Brian K., Simon Gravel, Eimear E. Kenny, and Carlos D. Bustamante. “RFMix: A Discriminative Modeling Approach for Rapid and Robust Local-Ancestry Inference.” The American Journal of Human Genetics 93, no. 2 (August 2013): 278–88. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajhg.2013.06.020.
  • AncestryGrapher - visualization of global and local ancestry from RFMIX2. Global Ancestry Painting (GAP) - three separate Python scripts: (i) RFMIX2ToBed4GAP.py; (ii) BedToGAP.py; and (iii) GAP.py. Local Ancestry Painting (LAP) - three separate Python scripts: (i) RFMIX2ToBed.py; (ii) BedToLAP.py; and (iii) LAP.py.
    Paper Lisi, Alessandro, and Michael C Campbell. “AncestryGrapher Toolkit: Python Command-Line Pipelines to Visualize Global- and Local- Ancestry Inferences from the RFMIX Version 2 Software.” Edited by Christina Kendziorski. Bioinformatics 40, no. 11 (November 1, 2024): btae616. https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btae616.

  • somalier - fast sample-swap and relatedness checks on BAMs/CRAMs/VCFs/GVCFs, by Brent Pedersen. Commands: extract, relate, ancestry, find-sites. Ancestry prediction wiki

  • SNPweights - ancestry inference using SNP weights from external reference panels. Greater accuracy than ancestry-informative markers (AIMs are 10-fold more informative than random SNPs for ancestry inference). PCA on the reference panel, prediction of PCs for the unseen samples. SNPs excluded: chrX, A/T, C/G. Predicted PCs using genome-wide SNPs have the highest accuracy. SNP weights for various populations are available.

    Paper Chen, Chia-Yen, Samuela Pollack, David J. Hunter, Joel N. Hirschhorn, Peter Kraft, and Alkes L. Price. “Improved Ancestry Inference Using Weights from External Reference Panels.” Bioinformatics 29, no. 11 (June 1, 2013): 1399–1406. https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btt144.
  • STRUCTURE - a model-based clustering method for inferring population structure from genotypes and assign individuals to populations. Assumptions - K populations (may be unknown), each is characterized by a set of allele frequencies at each locus, loci are unlinked and in linkage disequilibrium and Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium in populations. Model-based clustering, observations from each cluster are random draws from some parametric model. Inference using a Bayesian approach. MCMC and Gibbs sampling, overview in the appendix.
    Paper Pritchard, Jonathan K, Matthew Stephens, and Peter Donnelly. “Inference of Population Structure Using Multilocus Genotype Data.” Genetics 155, no. 2 (June 1, 2000): 945–59. https://doi.org/10.1093/genetics/155.2.945.
  • A harmonized collection of deeply sequenced, phased human genomes from the 1000 Genomes Project (1kGP) and Human Genome Diversity Project (HGDP). SNPs, InDels, SVs, investigation of population structure. Python, implemented using Hail.is data structures. Tutorials, five Jupyter notebooks demonstrating QC of sequencing data, relatedness inference and PCA, calculating statistics by population, analyzing genetic divergence, and applying ancestry analysis to a new dataset using HGDP+1kGP as a reference panel.
    Paper Koenig, Zan, Mary T. Yohannes, Lethukuthula L. Nkambule, Julia K. Goodrich, Heesu Ally Kim, Xuefang Zhao, Michael W. Wilson, et al. “A Harmonized Public Resource of Deeply Sequenced Diverse Human Genomes.” Preprint. Genomics, January 23, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.01.23.525248.
  • Ancestry inference from any genomics data. Data synthesis framework - repeatedly adding population reference genomics data with known ancestry to the data of interest with unknown ancestry and assessing performance in inferring ancestry (PCA, five dimensions, K nearest neighborhood clustering). Idea - if ancestry backgrounds match, addition of the reference genomics data will improve performance. Code upon request.
    Paper Belleau, Pascal, Astrid Deschênes, David A. Tuveson, and Alexander Krasnitz. “Accurate and Robust Inference of Genetic Ancestry from Cancer-Derived Molecular Data across Genomic Platforms.” Preprint. Bioinformatics, February 4, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.02.01.478737.
  • Ancestry prediction for PDX models in PDXNet. Ancestry estimation pipeline on the Seven Bridges Genomics Cancer Genomics Cloud. SNPweights is the core algorithm, with a custom weight panel. Methods and data for building the reference panel. Power analysis for the number of samples in each ancestry category needed to detect dominant driver mutations (150-300 samples needed). The pipeline and the custom reference panel are not available until publication.
    Paper Sanderson, Brian J., Paul Lott, Katherine Chiu, Juanita Elizabeth Quino, April Pangia Vang, Michael W. Lloyd, Anuj Srivastava, PDXNet Consortium, Jeffrey H. Chuang, and Luis G. Carvajal-Carmona. “Development and Application of Genetic Ancestry Reconstruction Methods to Study Diversity of Patient-Derived Models in the NCI PDXNet Consortium.” Preprint. Cancer Biology, October 25, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.10.24.513591.

  • kgp2anc - A protocol to estimate global ancestry starting from raw Illumina data

  • ancestryinformativemarkers - Public AIMs, by Jeremy Leipzig

  • AIM panels have been developed for European Americans (Paschou et al., 2008; Price et al., 2008; Seldin and Price, 2008; Tian et al., 2008) and Latino Americans (Galanter et al., 2012). Source

eQTLs

Polygenic risk score

  • Polygenic risk score (PRS) analysis guidelines and tutorial. PRS is an estimate of an individual’s genetic liability to a trait or disease, calculated according to their genotype profile and relevant genome-wide association study (GWAS) data. Box 1 - definitions. Several options how PRSs are calculated. Data and R/command line examples using PLINK, PRSice-2, LDpred-2 and lassosum for QC of base and target data, PRS calculations, visualizing results.
    Paper Choi, S.W., Mak, T.S. & O’Reilly, P.F. Tutorial: a guide to performing polygenic risk score analyses. Nat Protoc (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41596-020-0353-1
  • pgsc_calc - The Polygenic Score Catalog Calculator. Nextflow.

Regulatory

  • Activity-by-Contact (ABC) Model predicting SNP-enhancer regularoty pairs. Predictions in 131 cell types and tissues (all element-gene connections with ABC scores >= 0.015. GitHub.

  • 3DGeOD - The 3D Genome Organization in Disease curated database of disease-associated genetic variants (inter-chromosomal translocations ICTs from Mitelman, COSMIC, ChimerPub databases, SVs from dbSNP, ClinVar, SNPs from eQTL catalogue) disrupting 3D structure (Hi-C data from 4D Nucleoume, territory, compartment, TAD, loop boundaries) and the associated gene expression in 35 tissue/cell types. Search for curated associations, predicted with 3DFunc, a two-phase scoring algorithm to prioritize gene expression changes associated with 3D changes. GitHub.

    Paper Tang, Li, Matthew C. Hill, Mingxing He, Junhao Chen, Patrick T. Ellinor, and Min Li. “A 3D Genome Atlas of Genetic Variants and Their Pathological Effects.” Preprint. Bioinformatics, November 27, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.11.27.518071.
  • SNP2TFBS is a Web interface aimed at studying variations (SNPs/indels) that affect transcription factor binding (TFB) in the Human genome.

InDels

  • Kosugi, Shunichi, Yukihide Momozawa, Xiaoxi Liu, Chikashi Terao, Michiaki Kubo, and Yoichiro Kamatani. “Comprehensive Evaluation of Structural Variation Detection Algorithms for Whole Genome Sequencing.” Genome Biology, (December 2019) - Benchmarking of structural variant detection tools. Introduction to types of structural variants. No tool detects all. Table 1 prioritizes best tools for deletion, duplication, insertion, invertion detection.

  • Breakfast - a software for detecting genomic structural variants from DNA sequencing data.

  • MindTheGap - detection and assembly of DNA insertion variants. GitHub. C++.

  • Pindel - breakpoints of large deletions, medium sized insertions, inversions, tandem duplications and other structural variants. C++.

  • SVAFotate - Annotate a (lumpy) structual variant (SV) VCF with allele frequencies (AFs) from large population SV cohorts. Python.

CNV, SV

  • Awesome papers and projects about CNV and SV using NGS data - Relevant studies with Structual Variants and Copy Number Variants in NGS (Genome, Exome and Amplicon Sequencing) pipelines

  • Benchmarking of 15 WGS-based structural variant callers (focusing on deletions), selected out of 55 (Supplementary Table 1). Gold standard - homozygous deletions in inbred mouse chromosomes. Lumpy, Manta give most optimal performance under various test strategies. GitHub, Tweet.

    Paper Sarwal, Varuni, Sebastian Niehus, Ram Ayyala, Sei Chang, Angela Lu, Nicholas Darci-Maher, Russell Littman, et al. “[A Comprehensive Benchmarking of WGS-Based Structural Variant Callers](https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.04.16.045120).” Preprint. April 18, 2020.
  • Benchmark of 10 CNV callers. LUMPY performs best overall, Canvas is good for high specificity, CNVnator and RDXplorer are good for high sensitivity. Table 1 summarizes functionality of each caller. Used the Database of Genomic Variants as a gold standard, call CNVs from NA12878 genome.
    Paper - Zhang, Le, Wanyu Bai, Na Yuan, and Zhenglin Du. “[**Comprehensively Benchmarking Applications for Detecting Copy Number Variation.**](https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007069)” PLOS Computational Biology 15, no. 5 (May 28, 2019)
  • Review of structural variant callers. De novo-based approaches (graph- or scaffold-based), short-read DNA-seq and RNA-seq (gene fusion) mapping, long-read (PacBio, Oxford Nanopore) mapping, multimethods approaches. SV calling from newer technologies, such as optical mapping, strand-seq, 10X Genomics linked reads, Hi-C. Brief description of tools, their performance, references to reviews. Table 1 - categorized list of tools, brief description and links.
    Paper Mahmoud, Medhat, Nastassia Gobet, Diana Ivette Cruz-Dávalos, Ninon Mounier, Christophe Dessimoz, and Fritz J. Sedlazeck. “[Structural Variant Calling: The Long and the Short of It](https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-019-1828-7).” Genome Biology 20, no. 1 (December 2019): 246.
  • Benchmarking of seven SV callers (BreakDancer, Pindel, Delly, Lumpy, Manta, GRIDSS, SvABA) to detect different SV types, sizes, the effect of SV abundance and sequencing coverage, sequence similarity, biases (GC content and homopolymers), and mapping quality. Overview of read-pair, read-depth, split-read, and local assembly. SV types and definitions. Manta, Lumpy, of GRIDSS perform well. Supplementary material - code examples.
    Paper Gong, Tingting, Vanessa M Hayes, and Eva K F Chan. “[Detection of Somatic Structural Variants from Short-Read next-Generation Sequencing Data](https://doi.org/10.1093/bib/bbaa056),” Briefings in Bioinformatics, May 2021

  • ClassifyCNV - clinical annotation of copy-number variants. Input - BED file with DEL/DUP. Output - numeric pathogenicity scores. Python3

  • CopywriteR - R package for CNV detection from WES off-target sequences, discarding reads covering capture bait regions and adjacent. Calling peaks with MACS 1.4 and removing reads overlapping peaks. Compared with onTarget CBS (circular binary segmentation), propSeq, EXCAVATOR, higher sensitivity, better than low-coverage WGS, more robust to noise, improves downstream segmentation analysis. Works without reference. Performs well on ChIP-seq data (similarly removing reads in MACS peaks). 20kb bin resolution, bins are filtered, corrected for GC content, mappability, excluding blacklist-overlapping reads. Parallelized. preCopywriteR(), CopywriteR() and plotCNA() functions. BAM files as an input.

    Paper Kuilman, Thomas, Arno Velds, Kristel Kemper, Marco Ranzani, Lorenzo Bombardelli, Marlous Hoogstraat, Ekaterina Nevedomskaya, et al. “CopywriteR: DNA Copy Number Detection from off-Target Sequence Data.” Genome Biology 16, no. 1 (December 2015): 49. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-015-0617-1.
  • Control-FREEC - assess copy number and genotype information in whole genome and exome sequencing data. Corrects for contamination by normal cells and variable sample ploidy. With a matched normal sample, distinguishes somatic from germline events. R.
    Paper Boeva, Valentina, Tatiana Popova, Kevin Bleakley, Pierre Chiche, Julie Cappo, Gudrun Schleiermacher, Isabelle Janoueix-Lerosey, Olivier Delattre, and Emmanuel Barillot. “[Control-FREEC: A Tool for Assessing Copy Number and Allelic Content Using next-Generation Sequencing Data](https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btr670).” Bioinformatics, (February 1, 2012)

  • copyCat - a parallel R package for detecting copy-number alterations from short sequencing reads. To call high-coverage regions. Has downloadable annotations (mappability, GC-content). R.

  • copynumber - Segmentation of single- and multi-track copy number data by penalized least squares regression. Similar functionality to DNAcopy. R.

  • CREST - mapping somatic structural variations in cancer genomes ad base-pair resolution. realignment of soft-clipped subsequences.Compared with BreakDancer, Pindel. Tested on experimental and simulated data, hg18, some SVs experimentally validated.

    Paper Wang, Jianmin, Charles G Mullighan, John Easton, Stefan Roberts, Sue L Heatley, Jing Ma, Michael C Rusch, et al. “[CREST Maps Somatic Structural Variation in Cancer Genomes with Base-Pair Resolution](https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.1628).” Nature Methods 8, no. 8 (August 2011)
  • CNVkit - capturing CNVs in on-target and off-target genomic regions. Existing tools (CNVer, ExomeCNV, exomeCopy, CONTRA, CoNIFER, ExomeDepth, VarScan2, XHMM, ngCGH, EXCAVATOR, CANOES, PatternCNV, CODEX, Control-FREEC, cn.MOPS, cnvOffSeq, CopyWriteR). Account for GC content, mappability. Examples. Python.
    Paper Talevich, Eric, A. Hunter Shain, Thomas Botton, and Boris C. Bastian. “[CNVkit: Genome-Wide Copy Number Detection and Visualization from Targeted DNA Sequencing](https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004873).” PLOS Computational Biology, (April 21, 2016)
  • CNVpytor - CNV/CNA detection from read depth and SNPs (allelic imbalance). Python implementation of CNVnator, faster parsing (pysam) smaller .pytor files (H5). Works on a cloud, in Jupyter notebooks. Visualization using JBrowse. Python.
    Paper Suvakov, Milovan, Arijit Panda, Colin Diesh, Ian Holmes, and Alexej Abyzov. “[CNVpytor: A Tool for CNV/CNA Detection and Analysis from Read Depth and Allele Imbalance in Whole Genome Sequencing](https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.01.27.428472

),” biorXiv, January 27, 2021

  • CNVnator - CNV using read depth. Bin the genome, mean-shift technique to quantify CNVs. Poor agreement in methods detection. Misses retrotransposon-CNVs but detects >50% other regions missed by other methods. C++, Python.
    Paper Abyzov, Alexej, Alexander E. Urban, Michael Snyder, and Mark Gerstein. “[**CNVnator: An Approach to Discover, Genotype, and Characterize Typical and Atypical CNVs from Family and Population Genome Sequencing.**](https://doi.org/10.1101/gr.114876.110)” Genome Research 21, no. 6 (June 2011)
  • DELLY - detection of structural variants, such as CNVs, duplications, inversions, translocations. Paired-end and split-read analysis. C, C++.
    Paper Rausch, Tobias, Thomas Zichner, Andreas Schlattl, Adrian M. Stütz, Vladimir Benes, and Jan O. Korbel. “[DELLY: Structural Variant Discovery by Integrated Paired-End and Split-Read Analysis](https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/bts378).” Bioinformatics, (September 15, 2012)

  • DNAcopy - DNA copy number data analysis using Circular Binary Segmentation (CBS) algorithm. Input - CHG-like data, regions with comparative copy number values. Smoothing, outlier detection, segmentation using changepoint detection, visualization. R.

  • dysgu - a collection of tools for calling structural variants using short paired-end or long reads (ONT, PacBio). Detects SVs from alignment gaps, discordant and supplementary mappings (a fast consensus sequence algorithm, inspired by the positional de Brujin graph, followed by remapping of anomalous sequences to discover additional small SVs), generates consensus contigs, classifies events using macnine learning (pre-trained on manually curated gold standard), generates confidence score. Outperforms svbench library for benchmarking) manta, delly, lumpy, strelka, gatk on GIAB, simulated datasets, fast. Cython, Python.

    Paper Cleal, Kez, and Duncan Baird. "Dysgu: efficient structural variant calling using short or long reads." Nucleic Acids Research (31 January 2022). https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkac039

  • instasv - Integrative analysis of structural variations called by different tools. R.

  • gnomAD-SV - structural variants from deep WGS, added to gnomAD browser. 14,891 genomes, average statistics of SVs in general population.

    Paper Collins, Ryan L., Harrison Brand, Konrad J. Karczewski, Xuefang Zhao, Jessica Alföldi, Amit V. Khera, Laurent C. Francioli, et al. “[An Open Resource of Structural Variation for Medical and Population Genetics](https://doi.org/10.1101/578674).” BioRxiv, March 14, 2019.
  • GRIDSS2 - structural variant caller detecting single breakpoints. Phasing of complex rearrangements. Assembles reads supporting a structural variant using a positional de Bruijn graph. Single breakends are called on soft-clipped reads, reads and assemblies with unmapped or ambiguously mapping mates (Methods). Benchmarked against GRIDSS1, Manta, svaba, novobreak on manually curated experimental and simulated data. Input - one or more aligned SAM/BAM. 5 phases: (i) preprocessing, (ii) assembly, (iii) variant calling, (iv) annotation, and (v) somatic filtering. Annotations go into INFO and FORMAT VCF fields. Quickstart. Java.
    Paper Cameron, Daniel L., Jonathan Baber, Charles Shale, Jose Espejo Valle-Inclan, Nicolle Besselink, Arne van Hoeck, Roel Janssen, Edwin Cuppen, Peter Priestley, and Anthony T. Papenfuss. “GRIDSS2: Comprehensive Characterisation of Somatic Structural Variation Using Single Breakend Variants and Structural Variant Phasing.” Genome Biology 22, no. 1 (December 2021): 202. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-021-02423-x.
  • HATCHet (Holistic Allele-specific Tumor Copy-number Heterogeneity) is an algorithm that infers allele and clone-specific CNAs and WGDs jointly across multiple tumor samples from the same patient, and that leverages the relationships between clones in these samples. Roff, Conda.
    Paper - Zaccaria, Simone, and Benjamin J. Raphael. “[Accurate Quantification of Copy-Number Aberrations and Whole-Genome Duplications in Multi-Sample Tumor Sequencing Data](https://doi.org/10.1101/496174).” BioRxiv, January 1, 2018
  • LUMPY-SV - a general probabilistic framework for structural variant discovery. Integrates multiple signals - read-pair, split-read, read-depth and prior knowledge. Operates on multiple samples. C, C++.
    Paper Layer, Ryan M, Colby Chiang, Aaron R Quinlan, and Ira M Hall. “[**LUMPY: A Probabilistic Framework for Structural Variant Discovery.**](https://doi.org/10.1186/gb-2014-15-6-r84)” Genome Biology 15, no. 6 (2014): R84.
  • Manta - SV detection in single- and tumor-normal samples. parallelized for within-sample performance. Fast, detects more variants of different types. C++, Python.
    Paper Chen, Xiaoyu, Ole Schulz-Trieglaff, Richard Shaw, Bret Barnes, Felix Schlesinger, Morten Källberg, Anthony J. Cox, Semyon Kruglyak, and Christopher T. Saunders. “[Manta: Rapid Detection of Structural Variants and Indels for Germline and Cancer Sequencing Applications](https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btv710).” Bioinformatics, (April 15, 2016)

  • QDNASeq - Quantitative DNA sequencing for chromosomal aberrations. R.

  • samplot - Plot structural variant signals from many BAMs and CRAMs.

  • smoove - structural variant calling and genotyping with existing tools, but, smoothly. Go. Docker.

  • SV-Bay - structural variant detection, Bayesian, corrects for GC-content and mappability. Uses both normal and abnormal reads, paired-end and depth information. Somatic variants if a normal sample is available. Detailed methods, stats. Compared with GASVPro, Lumpy, BreakDancer, DELLY on simulated (TGsim) and experimental neuroblastoma datasets. Improve sensitivity and specificity of SV detection, less false positives. Reasonably fast. Python, R.

    Paper Iakovishina, Daria, Isabelle Janoueix-Lerosey, Emmanuel Barillot, Mireille Regnier, and Valentina Boeva. “[SV-Bay: Structural Variant Detection in Cancer Genomes Using a Bayesian Approach with Correction for GC-Content and Read Mappability](https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btv751).” Bioinformatics, (April 1, 2016)

Power

  • GeneticsDesign - GWAS power analysis, functions for designing genetics studies. R.

  • Genetic Association Study (GAS) Power Calculator - online tool to compute statistical power for large one-stage genetic association studies. The underlying method is derived from the CaTS power calculator for two-stage association studies (2006).

  • powerEQTL - power analysis for eQTL studies. Includes two models, one-way unbalanced ANOVA (categorical genotypes) and linear regression (additive counting genotypes). Applicable to bulk and scRNA-seq. Shiny app, CRAN.

    Paper Dong, Xianjun, Xiaoqi Li, Tzuu-Wang Chang, Scott T Weiss, and Weiliang Qiu. “[PowerEQTL: An R Package and Shiny Application for Sample Size and Power Calculation of Bulk Tissue and Single-Cell EQTL Analysis](https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.12.15.422954),” bioRxiv, December 16, 2020.
  • SEQPower - GWAS power analysis for case/control and quantitative studies, rare variants. Shell, binary.
    Paper Wang, Gao T., Biao Li, Regie P. Lyn Santos-Cortez, Bo Peng, and Suzanne M. Leal. “Power Analysis and Sample Size Estimation for Sequence-Based Association Studies.” Bioinformatics 30, no. 16 (August 15, 2014): 2377–78. https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btu296.

Miscellaneous

  • awesome-genetics - A curated list of awesome personal genomics software, libraries, and educational resources.

  • Consensus ICGC SNV - The set of somatically acquired SNVs and indels across PCAWG tumour samples. Variant calls were generated by three pipelines run independently on each sample, with subsequent merging into a consensus set of high-quality calls.

  • Consensus ICGC CNA - Somatically acquired copy number alterations across PCAWG tumour samples. Variant calls were generated by three pipelines run independently on each sample, with subsequent merging into a consensus set of high-quality calls.

  • Awesome papers and projects about CNV and SV using NGS data

  • Atlas of Variant Age - age estimate of ~45M SNPs. Method - Genealogical Estimation of Variant Age (GEVA), performs similar or better to PSMC. https://human.genome.dating/

    • Albers, Patrick K., and Gil McVean. “Dating Genomic Variants and Shared Ancestry in Population-Scale Sequencing Data.” Edited by Nick H. Barton. PLOS Biology 18, no. 1 (January 17, 2020): e3000586. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000586.

  • chromeister - An ultra fast, heuristic approach to detect conserved signals in extremely large pairwise genome comparisons (dot-plot). C, R, shell.

  • DNA-seq-analysis DNA sequencing analysis notes from Ming Tang.

  • gggenomes - A grammar of graphics for comparative genomics. R. Website

  • genomepy - Download genomes the easy way. Python.

  • GWAS tutorial Quality control with PLINK, population stratification (MDS), association tests (binary and quantitative using PLINK), polygenic risk scores. PLINK file formats. Box 1 - GWAS definitions.

    Paper Marees, Andries T., Hilde de Kluiver, Sven Stringer, Florence Vorspan, Emmanuel Curis, Cynthia Marie-Claire, and Eske M. Derks. “A Tutorial on Conducting Genome-Wide Association Studies: Quality Control and Statistical Analysis.” International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research 27, no. 2 (2018): e1608. https://doi.org/10.1002/mpr.1608.
  • Long-range sequencing and software for data processing. SMRT by Pacific Bioscience, nanopore-based by Oxford Nanopore, genome partitioning and barcoding by 10X Genomics, Hi-C based, BioNano optical mapping (Table 1). Table 2 - Bioinformatics tools for de novo genome assembly, SNP/CNV etc. variant detection, phasing, RNA-seq, methylation. Text describes each tool.
    Paper Sedlazeck, Fritz J., Hayan Lee, Charlotte A. Darby, and Michael C. Schatz. “[Piercing the Dark Matter: Bioinformatics of Long-Range Sequencing and Mapping](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41576-018-0003-4).” Nature Reviews Genetics 19, no. 6 (June 2018)

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