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, Viktor Perets1 and Stephen V. Gordon1,2,3
Whole-genome sequencing (WGS) of microbial pathogens provides a high-resolution approach to antibiotic resistance profiling, lineage classification and outbreak surveillance. Identification of SNPs across the genome by alignment against a reference genome is the highest precision method of delineating strains. SNiPgenie is a bioinformatics pipeline designed to perform the entire variant calling process across many samples simultaneously. It was developed in the context of developing WGS tools to support the tracking of infection transmission of Mycobacterium bovis in livestock and wildlife, the principal causative agent of bovine tuberculosis in these populations. SNiPgenie may, however, be applied to other bacteria where evolutionary change can be tracked accurately using SNPs. The tool comes with both a command line and a user-friendly graphical interface. It can run on standard desktop or laptop computers. SNiPgenie and its documentation are available at https://github.com/dmnfarrell/snipgenie.
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