NgsRelate: a software tool for estimating pairwise relatedness from next-generation sequencing data | Zendy

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NgsRelate: a software tool for estimating pairwise relatedness from next-generation sequencing data

Author(s) -

Thorfinn Sand Korneliussen,

Ida Moltke

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

bioinformatics

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.599

H-Index - 390

eISSN - 1367-4811

pISSN - 1367-4803

DOI - 10.1093/bioinformatics/btv509

Subject(s) - pairwise comparison , software , genotype , computer science , data mining , population , estimation , statistics , biology , genetics , artificial intelligence , mathematics , engineering , gene , demography , sociology , programming language , systems engineering

Pairwise relatedness estimation is important in many contexts such as disease mapping and population genetics. However, all existing estimation methods are based on called genotypes, which is not ideal for next-generation sequencing (NGS) data of low depth from which genotypes cannot be called with high certainty.

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