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github.com - Description LoVis4u is a bioinformatics tool for Loci Visualisation. LoVis4u, a command-line tool and Python API designed for highly customizable and fast visualisation of multiple genomic loci. LoVis4u generates vector images in...

The scientists established some guidelines for determining whether a variant is a legitimate branch of an existing lineage:

github.com - VcfR is an R package intended to allow easy manipulation and visualization of variant call format (VCF) data. Functions are provided to rapidly read from and write to VCF files. Once VCF data is read into R a parser function extracts matrices from...

The new SARS-CoV-2 version, B.1.1.7, which was first seen in the third week of September in Kent and Greater London, has since spread to other locations in the UK.

Prioritizing missense variants for further experimental investigation is a key challenge in current sequencing studies for exploring complex and Mendelian diseases. A large number of in silico tools have been employed for the task of...

github.com - tardis Toolkit for Automated and Rapid DIscovery of Structural variants Requirements zlib (http://www.zlib.net)mrfast (https://github.com/BilkentCompGen/mrfast)htslib (included as submodule; http://htslib.org/)Fetching tardis git clone...

github.com - HiCanu, a significant modification of the Canu assembler designed to leverage the full potential of HiFi reads via homopolymer compression, overlap-based error correction, and aggressive false overlap filtering.  More...