Friday, 6 July 2012

OmegaPlus: A Scalable Tool for Rapid Detection of Selective Sweeps in Whole-Genome Datasets.

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1. Bioinformatics. 2012 Jul 3. [Epub ahead of print]

OmegaPlus: A Scalable Tool for Rapid Detection of Selective Sweeps in Whole-Genome Datasets.

Alachiotis N, Stamatakis A, Pavlidis P.

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The Exelixis Lab, Scientific Computing Group, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies.

Abstract

MOTIVATION: Recent advances in sequencing technologies have led to the rapid accumulation of molecular sequence data. Analyzing whole-genome data (as obtained from next-generation sequencers) from intra-species samples allows to detect signatures of positive selection along the genome and therefore identify potentially advantageous genes in the course of the evolution of a population.We introduce OmegaPlus, an open-source tool for rapid detection of selective sweeps in whole-genome data based on linkage dis-equilibrium. The tool is up to two orders of magnitude faster than existing programs for this purpose and also exhibits up to two orders of magnitude smaller memory requirements. AVAILABILITY: OmegaPlus is available under GNU GPL at http://www.exelixis-lab.org/software.html. CONTACT: pavlos.pavlidis@h-its.org SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Available at Bioinformatics online.

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PMID: 22760304 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
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http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2012/07/03/bioinformatics.bts419.long

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