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Timothy D J Kirkwood1, Jack A Connolly1, Ee Lui Ang2,3
1Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, Department of Chemistry, School of Natural Sciences, Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Manchester, Manchester M1 7DN, United Kingdom.
Summary:
SyntenyQC is a data pre-processing tool for the construction of synteny plots. It supports genomic data collection, annotation and dereplication to facilitate (and in some cases fundamentally enable) the construction of informative synteny plots.
Availability And Implementation:
SyntenyQC is a command line app developed using Python version 3.10 and tested using pytest. SyntenyQC is available on PyPI (https://pypi.org/project/SyntenyQC) under the MIT License, along with a detailed user tutorial. Package tests can be viewed at https://github.com/Tim-Kirkwood/SyntenyQC.
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