Bioinformatics

GenomeTools – genome analysis software

The GenomeTools genome analysis system is a collection of bioinformatics tools (in the realm of genome informatics) combined into a single binary named gt.

It is based on a C library named libgenometools which contains a wide variety of classes for efficient and convenient implementation of sequence and annotation processing software.

GenomeTools has been designed to run on every POSIX compliant UNIX system — for example Linux or macOS. A reduced Windows version is also available.

This is free and open source software.

Some of the tools are:

  • LTRharvest, an efficient and flexible software tool for de novo detection of LTR retrotransposons.
  • Tallymer, a collection of flexible and memory-efficient programs for k-mer counting and indexing of large sequence sets.
  • uniquesub, a program for computing minimum unique substrings.
  • AnnotationSketch, a library for drawing genome annotations.
  • LTRdigest, a software tool for automated annotation of internal features of LTR retrotransposons.
  • MetaGenomeThreader, a software to predict genes, such as PCS’s (predicted coding sequences) in sequences of metagenome projects.
  • GtEncseq, a compressed biosequence representation with many features.
  • Readjoiner, a sequence assembler based on the assembly string graph framework.

Website: genometools.org
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Broad Institute, Inc.
License: Apache License 2.0

GenomeTools

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