| Tool name | Slider |
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| URL | http://www.bcgsc.ca/platform/bioinfo/software/slider |
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| Important features | 1. Slider is an alignment tool used for reducing alignment problems by making use of probability of reads in prb files.
2. It has high efficiency and accuracy for alignment and SNP prediction.
3. It can reduce the mis-match percentage in bases. |
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| Citations | Malhis N, Butterfield YS, Ester M, Jones SJ.Slider--maximum use of probability information for alignment of short sequence reads and SNP detection.Bioinformatics. 2009 Jan 1;25(1):6-13. Epub 2008 Oct 30.
PMID: 18974170. |
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| Year of publication | 2009 |
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| Rank by usage frequency | 100 |
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| Function | Alignment/Mapping, SNP discovery |
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| Category | Free, Downloadable |
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| Input file format | probability files |
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| Operating system | Windows 32/64bit
Linux/Unix 32/64bit
Mac OS X 32/64bit |
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| Operating language | JAVA |
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| Platform | Illumina/Solexa |
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| Maintained by | Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre
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