Tag: Genome Size

findGSE – Estimating Genome Size Variation using k-mer Frequencies

findGSE

:: DESCRIPTION

findGSE is a tool for estimating size of (heterozygous diploid or homozygous) genomes by fitting k-mer frequencies iteratively with a skew normal distribution model.

::DEVELOPER

KS’ Research Group

:: SCREENSHOTS

N/A

:: REQUIREMENTS

:: DOWNLOAD

findGSE

:: MORE INFORMATION

Citation

Bioinformatics. 2018 Feb 15;34(4):550-557. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btx637.
findGSE: estimating genome size variation within human and Arabidopsis using k-mer frequencies.
Sun H, Ding J, Piednoël M, Schneeberger K.

GAAS 0.17 – Calculate Accurate Community Composition and Average Genome Size

GAAS 0.17

:: DESCRIPTION

GAAS (Genome relative Abundance and Average Size) is a bioinformatic tool to calculate accurate community composition and average genome size in metagenomes by using BLAST, advanced parsing of hits and correction of genome length bias.

::DEVELOPER

Florent E. Angly (florent.angly@gmail.com)

:: SCREENSHOTS

N/A

:: REQUIREMENTS

:: DOWNLOAD

 GAAS

:: MORE INFORMATION

Citation

PLoS Comput Biol. 2009 Dec;5(12):e1000593. Epub 2009 Dec 11.
The GAAS metagenomic tool and its estimations of viral and microbial average genome size in four major biomes.
Angly FE , et al.