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GenomeQC: a quality assessment tool for genome assemblies and gene structure annotations
BACKGROUND: Genome assemblies are foundational for understanding the biology of a species. They provide a physical framework for mapping additional sequences, thereby enabling characterization of, for example, genomic diversity and differences in gene expression across individuals and tissue types....
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7053122/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32122303 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12864-020-6568-2 |
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author | Manchanda, Nancy Portwood, John L. Woodhouse, Margaret R. Seetharam, Arun S. Lawrence-Dill, Carolyn J. Andorf, Carson M. Hufford, Matthew B. |
author_facet | Manchanda, Nancy Portwood, John L. Woodhouse, Margaret R. Seetharam, Arun S. Lawrence-Dill, Carolyn J. Andorf, Carson M. Hufford, Matthew B. |
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description | BACKGROUND: Genome assemblies are foundational for understanding the biology of a species. They provide a physical framework for mapping additional sequences, thereby enabling characterization of, for example, genomic diversity and differences in gene expression across individuals and tissue types. Quality metrics for genome assemblies gauge both the completeness and contiguity of an assembly and help provide confidence in downstream biological insights. To compare quality across multiple assemblies, a set of common metrics are typically calculated and then compared to one or more gold standard reference genomes. While several tools exist for calculating individual metrics, applications providing comprehensive evaluations of multiple assembly features are, perhaps surprisingly, lacking. Here, we describe a new toolkit that integrates multiple metrics to characterize both assembly and gene annotation quality in a way that enables comparison across multiple assemblies and assembly types. RESULTS: Our application, named GenomeQC, is an easy-to-use and interactive web framework that integrates various quantitative measures to characterize genome assemblies and annotations. GenomeQC provides researchers with a comprehensive summary of these statistics and allows for benchmarking against gold standard reference assemblies. CONCLUSIONS: The GenomeQC web application is implemented in R/Shiny version 1.5.9 and Python 3.6 and is freely available at https://genomeqc.maizegdb.org/ under the GPL license. All source code and a containerized version of the GenomeQC pipeline is available in the GitHub repository https://github.com/HuffordLab/GenomeQC. |
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spelling | pubmed-70531222020-03-10 GenomeQC: a quality assessment tool for genome assemblies and gene structure annotations Manchanda, Nancy Portwood, John L. Woodhouse, Margaret R. Seetharam, Arun S. Lawrence-Dill, Carolyn J. Andorf, Carson M. Hufford, Matthew B. BMC Genomics Software BACKGROUND: Genome assemblies are foundational for understanding the biology of a species. They provide a physical framework for mapping additional sequences, thereby enabling characterization of, for example, genomic diversity and differences in gene expression across individuals and tissue types. Quality metrics for genome assemblies gauge both the completeness and contiguity of an assembly and help provide confidence in downstream biological insights. To compare quality across multiple assemblies, a set of common metrics are typically calculated and then compared to one or more gold standard reference genomes. While several tools exist for calculating individual metrics, applications providing comprehensive evaluations of multiple assembly features are, perhaps surprisingly, lacking. Here, we describe a new toolkit that integrates multiple metrics to characterize both assembly and gene annotation quality in a way that enables comparison across multiple assemblies and assembly types. RESULTS: Our application, named GenomeQC, is an easy-to-use and interactive web framework that integrates various quantitative measures to characterize genome assemblies and annotations. GenomeQC provides researchers with a comprehensive summary of these statistics and allows for benchmarking against gold standard reference assemblies. CONCLUSIONS: The GenomeQC web application is implemented in R/Shiny version 1.5.9 and Python 3.6 and is freely available at https://genomeqc.maizegdb.org/ under the GPL license. All source code and a containerized version of the GenomeQC pipeline is available in the GitHub repository https://github.com/HuffordLab/GenomeQC. BioMed Central 2020-03-02 /pmc/articles/PMC7053122/ /pubmed/32122303 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12864-020-6568-2 Text en © The Author(s). 2020 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Software Manchanda, Nancy Portwood, John L. Woodhouse, Margaret R. Seetharam, Arun S. Lawrence-Dill, Carolyn J. Andorf, Carson M. Hufford, Matthew B. GenomeQC: a quality assessment tool for genome assemblies and gene structure annotations |
title | GenomeQC: a quality assessment tool for genome assemblies and gene structure annotations |
title_full | GenomeQC: a quality assessment tool for genome assemblies and gene structure annotations |
title_fullStr | GenomeQC: a quality assessment tool for genome assemblies and gene structure annotations |
title_full_unstemmed | GenomeQC: a quality assessment tool for genome assemblies and gene structure annotations |
title_short | GenomeQC: a quality assessment tool for genome assemblies and gene structure annotations |
title_sort | genomeqc: a quality assessment tool for genome assemblies and gene structure annotations |
topic | Software |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7053122/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32122303 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12864-020-6568-2 |
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