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ksrates: positioning whole-genome duplications relative to speciation events in KS distributions
Cecilia Sensalari1,2, Steven Maere1,2, Rolf Lohaus1,2
1Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Ghent 9052, Belgium.
Summary:
We present ksrates, a user-friendly command-line tool to position ancient whole-genome duplication events with respect to speciation events in a phylogeny by comparing paralog and ortholog KS distributions derived from genomic or transcriptomic sequences, while adjusting for substitution rate differences among the lineages involved.
Availability And Implementation:
ksrates is implemented in Python 3 and as a Nextflow pipeline. The source code, Singularity and Docker containers, documentation and tutorial are available via https://github.com/VIB-PSB/ksrates.
Supplementary Information:
Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
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