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Short Read Assembly into Haplotypes

Current version

0.3.1 February 2010

Description

ShoRAH is a software package that allows for inference about the structure of a population from a set of short sequence reads as obtained from ultra-deep sequencing of a mixed sample. The package contains programs that support mapping of reads to a reference genome, correcting sequencing errors by locally clustering reads in small windows of the alignment, reconstructing a minimal set of global haplotypes that explain the reads, and estimating the frequencies of the inferred haplotypes.

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ShoRAH is distributed under the GNU General Public License.

For changes between versions please see the file CHANGELOG.

Installation

ShoRAH has been tested under Linux and Mac OS X. Since we distribute the source code,
there is in principle no reason why it shouldn't work on Windows.
Please consult the INSTALL file for instructions.

Known issues

Version 0.3 solves some previously reported issues. Should you encounter any problem, please drop us a mail.

We are currently working on improving the sampling procedure and on a GUI (graphical user interface).

Next major release will most likely contain support for Illumina reads.

The script plot_sampling and plot_stats are somehow experimental, we are glad to hear opinions.

Authors and Contributors

Niko Beerenwinkel
Nicholas Eriksson
Lukas Geyrhofer
Osvaldo Zagordi

Citations

The general inference procedure is described in:

The current implementation of the error correction step is not based on the k-means algorithm described in the PLoS paper. Rather, we use the Dirichlet process mixture for locally inferring haplotypes and correcting reads.

Contact

shorah@bsse.ethz.ch

 

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