algolab/malvirus repository overview

⁠MALVIRUS

MALVIRUS is a fast and accurate tool for genotyping haploid individuals that does not require to assemble the read nor mapping them to a reference genome. It is tailored to work with virological data and can genotype an individual directly from sequencing data in minutes.

MALVIRUS is divided into two logically distinct steps: the creation of a variant catalog from a set of assemblies and the genotype calling. The first step is based on mafft [1]⁠ and snp-sites [2]⁠, whereas the second step is based on KMC [3]⁠, MALVA [4]⁠, and SnpEff[5]⁠.

The variant catalog can be built once and reused for genotyping multiple individuals.

Please see the MALVIRUS web site⁠ for additional details.

MALVIRUS is distributed as a Docker image and is publicly available on GitHub⁠ and Docker Hub⁠ under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3 or later. MALVIRUS was mainly developed and tested under Ubuntu GNU/Linux version 18.04 but works wherever Docker is available.

⁠References

[1]⁠ Katoh, Kazutaka, and Daron M. Standley. 2013. “MAFFT Multiple Sequence Alignment Software Version 7: Improvements in Performance and Usability.” Molecular Biology and Evolution 30 (4): 772–80. doi:10.1093/molbev/mst010⁠.

[2]⁠ Page, Andrew J., Ben Taylor, Aidan J. Delaney, Jorge Soares, Torsten Seemann, Jacqueline A. Keane, and Simon R. Harris. 2016. “SNP-Sites: Rapid Efficient Extraction of Snps from Multi-Fasta Alignments.” Microbial Genomics 2 (4). doi:10.1099/mgen.0.000056⁠.

[3]⁠ Kokot, Marek, Maciej Dlugosz, and Sebastian Deorowicz. 2017. “KMC 3: counting and manipulating k-mer statistics.” Bioinformatics 33 (17): 2759–61. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btx304⁠.

[4]⁠ Denti, Luca, Marco Previtali, Giulia Bernardini, Alexander Schönhuth, and Paola Bonizzoni. 2019. “MALVA: Genotyping by Mapping-Free Allele Detection of Known Variants.” iScience 18: 20–27. doi:10.1016/j.isci.2019.07.011⁠.

[5]⁠ Pablo Cingolani et al. 2012. “A program for annotating and predicting the effects of single nucleotide polymorphisms, SnpEff: SNPs in the genome of Drosophila melanogaster strain w1118; iso-2; iso-3” Fly 6(2): 80-92. doi:10.4161/fly.19695.