GenomeScope

Estimate genome heterozygosity, repeat content, and size from sequencing reads using a kmer-based statistical approach.

Information

The code is open source on Github: github.com/schatzlab/genomescope


Statistical work by Gregory Vurture and Fritz Sedlazeck

Web application by Maria Nattestad

Principal investigator: Mike Schatz


For questions about the science, email: Mike Schatz at mschatz@cs.jhu.edu


Please cite: Vurture et al. (2017) GenomeScope: Fast reference-free profiling from short reads. Bioinformatics. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btx153


Also try out GenomeScope 2.0