Journal
BMC BIOINFORMATICS
Volume 18, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
BMC
DOI: 10.1186/s12859-017-1844-0
Keywords
VCF; Phylogeny; FASTA; 1000Genomes; Anthropological genetics; Next generation sequencing data
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- UB Research Foundation
- National Science Foundation [1714867]
- Division Of Behavioral and Cognitive Sci
- Direct For Social, Behav & Economic Scie [1714867] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Background: Constructing alignments and phylogenies for a given locus from large genome sequencing studies with relevant outgroups allow novel evolutionary and anthropological insights. However, no user- friendly tool has been developed to integrate thousands of recently available and anthropologically relevant genome sequences to construct complete sequence alignments and phylogenies. Results: Here, we provide VCFtoTree, a user friendly tool with a graphical user interface that directly accesses online databases to download, parse and analyze genome variation data for regions of interest. Our pipeline combines popular sequence datasets and tree building algorithms with custom data parsing to generate accurate alignments and phylogenies using all the individuals from the 1000 Genomes Project, Neanderthal and Denisovan genomes, as well as reference genomes of Chimpanzee and Rhesus Macaque. It can also be applied to other phased human genomes, as well as genomes from other species. The output of our pipeline includes an alignment in FASTA format and a tree file in newick format. Conclusion: VCFtoTree fulfills the increasing demand for constructing alignments and phylogenies for a given loci from thousands of available genomes. Our software provides a user friendly interface for a wider audience without prerequisite knowledge in programming.
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