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A Graphical User Interface for Software-assisted Tracking of Protein Concentration in Dynamic Cellular Protrusions
Published on: July 11, 2017
GenCoF: a graphical user interface to rapidly remove human genome contaminants from metagenomic datasets
Matthew D Czajkowski1, Daniel P Vance1, Steven A Frese1,2
1Evolve BioSystems, Inc., Davis, CA, USA.
Summary:
The removal of human genomic reads from shotgun metagenomic sequencing is a critical step in protecting subject privacy. Freely available tools addressing this issue require advanced programing knowledge or are limited by analytical time and data load due to their server-based nature. Here, we compared the most cited tools for host-DNA removal using synthetic and real metagenomic datasets. Then, we integrated the most efficient pipeline in a graphical user interface to make these tools available without command line use. This interface, GenCoF, rapidly removes human genome contaminants from metagenomic datasets. Additionally, the tool offers quality-filtering, data reduction and interactive modification of any parameter in order to customize the analysis. GenCoF offers both quality and host-associated filtering in a non-commercial, freely available tool in a local, interactive and easy-to-use interface.
Availability And Implementation:
GenCoF is freely available (under a GPL license) for Mac OS and Linux at https://github.com/MattCzajkowski/GenCoF.
Supplementary Information:
Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
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