StrainGE

A toolkit to track and characterize low-abundance strains using metagenomic data

StrainGE is a set of tools to analyse conspecific strain diversity in bacterial populations. It consists of two main components: 1) Strain Genome Search tool (StrainGST), a tool to find close reference genomes to strain(s) present in a sample and 2) Strain Genome Recovery (StrainGR), a tool to perform strain-aware variant calling at low coverages, which in turn can be used to track strains across samples.

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Installation

StrainGE requires Python >= 3.7 and depends on the following packages:

  • NumPy

  • SciPy

  • matplotlib

  • scikit-bio

  • pysam

  • h5py

  • intervaltree

These packages will be automatically installed when installing through pip.

Install through pip

pip install strainge

Make sure numpy is already installed before installing StrainGE.

Install from bioconda

  1. Create a new conda environment and activate it

    conda create -n strainge python=3.9
    source activate strainge
    
  2. Add bioconda and conda-forge channels

    conda config --add channels bioconda
    conda config --add channels conda-forge
    
  3. Install StrainGE

    conda install strainge
    

Tip: also consider installing Mamba for much faster conda operations.

Install manually from github

  1. Clone the repository

    git clone https://github.com/broadinstitute/StrainGE
    
  2. Install StrainGE

    cd StrainGE
    python setup.py install
    

Usage

Citation

If you use StrainGE in your project, please consider citing our publication:

Dijk, Lucas R. van, Bruce J. Walker, Timothy J. Straub, Colin J. Worby, Alexandra Grote, Henry L. Schreiber, Christine Anyansi, et al. 2022. “StrainGE: A Toolkit to Track and Characterize Low-Abundance Strains in Complex Microbial Communities.” Genome Biology 23 (1): 74. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-022-02630-0.

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