Atlas: analysis tools for low-depth and ancient samples

Autor: Vivian Link, Athanasios Kousathanas, Krishna Veeramah, Christian Sell, Amelie Scheu, Daniel Wegmann
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2017
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Popis: SummaryPost-mortem damage (PMD) obstructs the proper analysis of ancient DNA samples and can currently only be addressed by removing or down-weighting potentially damaged data. Here we present ATLAS, a suite of methods to accurately genotype and estimate genetic diversity from ancient samples, while accounting for PMD. It works directly from raw BAM files and enables the building of complete and customized pipelines for the analysis of ancient and other low-depth samples in a very user-friendly way. Based on simulations we show that, in the presence of PMD, a dedicated pipeline of ATLAS calls genotypes more accurately than the state-of-the-art pipeline of GATK combined with mapDamage 2.0.AvailabilityATLAS is an open-source C++ program freely available at https://bitbucket.org/phaentu/atlas.ContactDaniel.Wegmann@unifr.chSupplementary informationSupplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
Databáze: OpenAIRE