Open AccessBC-store: A program for MGISEQ barcode sets analysis
Author(s) -
Irina Bulusheva,
Vera Belova,
Boris Nikashin,
Dmitriy Korostin
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
plos one
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.99
H-Index - 332
ISSN - 1932-6203
DOI - 10.1371/journal.pone.0247532
Subject(s) - barcode , computer science , compatibility (geochemistry) , set (abstract data type) , open source , data mining , programming language , operating system , software , engineering , chemical engineering
Here we present the devised BC-store–a program for analyzing and selecting sets of barcodes for sequencing on platforms manufactured by MGI Tech (China). The app is available as an open source in Python3 and as a desktop version. The application allows analyzing the compatibility of barcodes on a single lane of a flow cell in a set in the case of equal and arbitrary fractions. In addition, with the help of this tool barcodes can be added to an existing set with custom share options. In this paper we describe how BC-store works for different tasks and consider the effectiveness of using BC-store in sequence lab routine tasks.