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ArticleBioinformatics (Oxford, England)2024

Panacus: fast and exact pangenome growth and core size estimation.

Luca Parmigiani, Erik Garrison, Jens Stoye, Tobias Marschall, Daniel Doerr

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Article in Bioinformatics (Oxford, England), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

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Luca ParmigianiFaculty of Technology and Center for Biotechnology (CeBiTec), Bielefeld University, Bielefeld 33615, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-2139-3259
Erik GarrisonDepartment of Genetics, Genomics and Informatics, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN 38163, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-3821-631X
Jens StoyeFaculty of Technology and Center for Biotechnology (CeBiTec), Bielefeld University, Bielefeld 33615, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-4656-7155
Tobias MarschallInstitute for Medical Biometry and Bioinformatics, Medical Faculty and University Hospital Düsseldorf, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf 40225, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-9376-1030
Daniel DoerrCenter for Digital Medicine, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf 40225, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-3720-6227

Funding

Representing structural haplotypes and complex genetic variation in pan-genome graphsU01HG010973 · NHGRI · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI CHAISSON, MARK, EICHLER, EVAN · 2020 to 2023
$1.3M
NHGRI NIH HHS U01 HG010973NIH HHS 1U01HG010973
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

motivationUsing a single linear reference genome poses a limitation to exploring the full genomic diversity of a species. The release of a draft human pangenome underscores the increasing relevance of pangenomics to overcome these limitations. Pangenomes are commonly represented as graphs, which can represent billions of base pairs of sequence. Presently, there is a lack of scalable software able to perform key tasks on pangenomes, such as quantifying universally shared sequence across genomes (the core genome) and measuring the extent of genomic variability as a function of sample size (pangenome growth).

resultsWe introduce Panacus (pangenome-abacus), a tool designed to rapidly perform these tasks and visualize the results in interactive plots. Panacus can process GFA files, the accepted standard for pangenome graphs, and is able to analyze a human pangenome graph with 110 million nodes in <1 h. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: Panacus is implemented in Rust and is published as Open Source software under the MIT license. The source code and documentation are available at https://github.com/marschall-lab/panacus. Panacus can be installed via Bioconda at https://bioconda.github.io/recipes/panacus/README.html.

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PMCPMC11665632

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