Bystro

Bystro is a software tool to annotate genomic allele variants at the whole genome scale. The Bystro algorithm uses a natural-language search engine to rapidly identify and filter alleles and samples.

Topic

Genetic variation;Genomics;Natural language processing

Detail

  • Operation: Genetic variation analysis;Genome annotation

  • Software interface: Web user interface

  • Language: Perl, Go

  • License: Apache License 2.0

  • Cost: Free

  • Version name: 0.12.0

  • Credit: AWS Cloud Credits for Research program, the Molecules to Mankind program, Veterans Health Administration, the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

  • Input: -

  • Output: -

  • Contact: team@bystro.io, Alex V. Kotlar akotlar@emory.edu

  • Collection: -

  • Maturity: -

Publications

  • Bystro: rapid online variant annotation and natural-language filtering at whole-genome scale.
  • Kotlar AV, Trevino CE, Zwick ME, Cutler DJ, Wingo TS. Bystro: rapid online variant annotation and natural-language filtering at whole-genome scale. Genome Biol. 2018 Feb 6;19(1):14. doi: 10.1186/s13059-018-1387-3. PMID: 29409527; PMCID: PMC5801807.
  • https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-018-1387-3
  • PMID: 29409527
  • PMC: PMC5801807

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