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ArticleVirus evolution2021

GRACy: A tool for analysing human cytomegalovirus sequence data.

Salvatore Camiolo, Nicolás M Suárez, Antonia Chalka, Cristina Venturini, Judith Breuer, Andrew J Davison

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Article in Virus evolution, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Salvatore CamioloMRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, Glasgow, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-7265-5960
Nicolás M SuárezMRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, Glasgow, UK.
Antonia ChalkaDivision of Infection & Immunity, Roslin Institute, R(D)SVM, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
Cristina VenturiniDivision of Infection and Immunity, University College London, London, UK.
Judith BreuerDivision of Infection and Immunity, University College London, London, UK.
Andrew J DavisonMRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, Glasgow, UK.

Funding

Medical Research Council MC_UU_12014/3Wellcome Trust 204870/Z/16/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Modern DNA sequencing has instituted a new era in human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) genomics. A key development has been the ability to determine the genome sequences of HCMV strains directly from clinical material. This involves the application of complex and often non-standardized bioinformatics approaches to analysing data of variable quality in a process that requires substantial manual intervention. To relieve this bottleneck, we have developed GRACy (Genome Reconstruction and Annotation of Cytomegalovirus), an easy-to-use toolkit for analysing HCMV sequence data. GRACy automates and integrates modules for read filtering, genotyping, genome assembly, genome annotation, variant analysis, and data submission. These modules were tested extensively on simulated and experimental data and outperformed generic approaches. GRACy is written in Python and is embedded in a graphical user interface with all required dependencies installed by a single command. It runs on the Linux operating system and is designed to allow the future implementation of a cross-platform version. GRACy is distributed under a GPL 3.0 license and is freely available at https://bioinformatics.cvr.ac.uk/software/ with the manual and a test dataset.

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de novo assemblygenome annotationgenotypinghuman cytomegalovirusvariant discovery

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PMID33505707
PMCPMC7816668

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