Large-scale comparative analysis of microbial pan-genomes using PanOCT

Bioinformatics. 2019 Mar 15;35(6):1049-1050. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bty744.

Abstract

Summary: The JCVI pan-genome pipeline is a collection of programs to run PanOCT and tools that support and extend the capabilities of PanOCT. PanOCT (pan-genome ortholog clustering tool) is a tool for pan-genome analysis of closely related prokaryotic species or strains. The JCVI Pan-Genome Pipeline wrapper invokes command-line utilities that prepare input genomes, invoke third-party tools such as NCBI Blast+, run PanOCT, generate a consensus pan-genome, annotate features of the pan-genome, detect sets of genes of interest such as antimicrobial resistance (AMR) genes and generate figures, tables and html pages to visualize the results. The pipeline can run in a hierarchical mode, lowering the RAM and compute resources used.

Availability and implementation: Source code, demo data, and detailed documentation are freely available at https://github.com/JCVenterInstitute/PanGenomePipeline.

Publication types

  • Comparative Study
  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

  • Cluster Analysis
  • Genome, Bacterial*
  • Genome, Microbial*
  • Prokaryotic Cells
  • Software