www.nature.com - Validated a widely accessible approach that can be used to establish functional causality for noncoding sequence variants identified by GWASs.
https://www.nature.com/articles/nm.3975
Scientists have reconstructed the genome of an ancient human who lived nearly 5,700 years ago in Southern Denmark from the birch pitch- an ancient tar-like substance.
github.com - genome simulation across a population with zeta-distributed allele frequency, snps, insertions, deletions, and multi-nucleotide polymorphisms
More at https://github.com/ekg/mutatrix
./mutatrix -S sample -P test/ -p 2 -n 10 reference.fasta
github.com - Flanker, a Python package which performs alignment-free clustering of gene flanking sequences in a consistent format, allowing investigation of mobile genetic elements (MGEs) without prior knowledge of their structure. Flanker can be...
github.com - IVA (Iterative Virus Assembler) designed specifically for read pairs sequenced at highly variable depth from RNA virus samples. We tested IVA on datasets from 140 sequenced samples from human immunodeficiency virus-1 or influenza-virus-infected...
github.com - chromeister: An ultra fast, heuristic approach to detect conserved signals in extremely large pairwise genome comparisons.
USAGE:
-query: sequence A in fasta format
-db: sequence B in fasta format
-out: output matrix
-kmer Integer: k>1...
www.science.org - The completed regions include all centromeric satellite arrays, recent segmental duplications, and the short arms of all five acrocentric chromosomes, unlocking these complex regions of the genome to variational and functional studies.