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wgatools: an ultrafast toolkit for manipulating whole-genome alignments
Wenjie Wei1,2, Songtao Gui3, Jian Yang1,4
1School of Life Sciences, Westlake University, Hangzhou 310030, China.
Summary:
With 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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