ksrates: positioning whole-genome duplications relative to speciation events in KS distributions.

Sensalari, Cecilia; Maere, Steven; Lohaus, Rolf · Bioinformatics · 2022

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

We present ksrates, a user-friendly command-line tool to position ancient whole-genome duplication events with respect to speciation events in a phylogeny by comparing paralog and ortholog KS distributions derived from genomic or transcriptomic sequences, while adjusting for substitution rate differences among the lineages involved. ksrates is implemented in Python 3 and as a Nextflow pipeline. The source code, Singularity and Docker containers, documentation and tutorial are available via https://github.com/VIB-PSB/ksrates. Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

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