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ArticleBioinformatics (Oxford, England)2025

wgatools: an ultrafast toolkit for manipulating whole-genome alignments.

Wenjie Wei, Songtao Gui, Jian Yang, Erik Garrison, Jianbing Yan, Hai-Jun Liu

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Article in Bioinformatics (Oxford, England), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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Wenjie WeiSchool of Life Sciences, Westlake University, Hangzhou 310030, China.ORCID 0000-0003-4105-9693
Songtao GuiNational Key Laboratory of Wheat Improvement, College of Life Sciences, Shandong Agricultural University, Tai'an 271018, China.
Jian YangSchool of Life Sciences, Westlake University, Hangzhou 310030, China.ORCID 0000-0003-2001-2474
Erik GarrisonDepartment of Genetics, Genomics and Informatics, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN 38163, United States.
Jianbing YanNational Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China.ORCID 0000-0001-8650-7811
Hai-Jun LiuYazhouwan National Laboratory, Sanya 572024, China.ORCID 0000-0001-7717-893X

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European Union's Framework Programme for Research and Innovation Horizon 2020Marie Curie Skłodowska Grant Agreement 847548
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Abstract

summaryWith the rapid development of long-read sequencing technologies, the era of individual complete genomes is approaching. We have developed wgatools, a cross-platform, ultrafast toolkit that supports a range of whole-genome alignment formats, offering practical tools for conversion, processing, evaluation, and visualization of alignments, thereby facilitating population-level genome analysis and advancing functional and evolutionary genomics. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: wgatools supports diverse formats and can process, filter, and statistically evaluate alignments, perform alignment-based variant calling, and visualize alignments both locally and genome-wide. Built with Rust for efficiency and safe memory usage, it ensures fast performance and can handle large datasets consisting of hundreds of genomes. wgatools is published as free software under the MIT open-source license, and its source code is freely available at https://github.com/wjwei-handsome/wgatools and https://zenodo.org/records/14882797.

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GenomeGenomicsSequence AlignmentSoftwareHumansSequence Analysis, DNA

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