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Bioinformatics resources for SARS-CoV-2 discovery and surveillance.

Briefings in bioinformatics | 2021

In early January 2020, the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) responsible for a pneumonia outbreak in Wuhan, China, was identified using next-generation sequencing (NGS) and readily available bioinformatics pipelines. In addition to virus discovery, these NGS technologies and bioinformatics resources are currently being employed for ongoing genomic surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 worldwide, tracking its spread, evolution and patterns of variation on a global scale. In this review, we summarize the bioinformatics resources used for the discovery and surveillance of SARS-CoV-2. We also discuss the advantages and disadvantages of these bioinformatics resources and highlight areas where additional technical developments are urgently needed. Solutions to these problems will be beneficial not only to the prevention and control of the current COVID-19 pandemic but also to infectious disease outbreaks of the future.

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Laboratory for Fluorescence Dynamics (tool)

RRID:SCR_001437

Biomedical technology research center and training resource that develops novel fluorescence technologies, including instrumentation, methods and software applicable to cellular imaging and the elucidation of dynamic processes in cells. The LFD's main activities are: * Services and Resources: the LFD provides a state-of-the-art laboratory for fluorescence measurements, microscopy and spectroscopy, with technical assistance to visiting scientists. * Research and Development: the LFD designs, tests, and implements advances in the technology of hardware, software, and biomedical applications. * Training and Dissemination: the LFD disseminates knowledge of fluorescence spectroscopic principles, instrumentation, and applications to the scientific community.

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European Bioinformatics Institute (tool)

RRID:SCR_004727

Non-profit academic organization for research and services in bioinformatics. Provides freely available data from life science experiments, performs basic research in computational biology, and offers user training programme, manages databases of biological data including nucleic acid, protein sequences, and macromolecular structures. Part of EMBL.

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UCSC Genome Browser (tool)

RRID:SCR_005780

Portal to interactively visualize genomic data. Provides reference sequences and working draft assemblies for collection of genomes and access to ENCODE and Neanderthal projects. Includes collection of vertebrate and model organism assemblies and annotations, along with suite of tools for viewing, analyzing and downloading data.

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PHYLIP (tool)

RRID:SCR_006244

A free package of software programs for inferring phylogenies (evolutionary trees). The source code is distributed (in C), and executables are also distributed. In particular, already-compiled executables are available for Windows (95/98/NT/2000/me/xp/Vista), Mac OS X, and Linux systems. Older executables are also available for Mac OS 8 or 9 systems.

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Jalview (tool)

RRID:SCR_006459

A free program for multiple sequence alignment editing, visualisation and analysis that is available in two forms: a lightweight Java applet for use in web applications, and a powerful desktop application that employs web services for sequence alignment, secondary structure prediction and the retrieval of alignments, sequences, annotation and structures from public databases and any DAS 1.53 compliant sequence or annotation server. Use it to view and edit sequence alignments, analyse them with phylogenetic trees and principal components analysis (PCA) plots and explore molecular structures and annotation. Jalview has built in DNA, RNA and protein sequence and structure visualisation and analysis capabilities. It uses Jmol to view 3D structures, and VARNA to display RNA secondary structure.

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NCBI (tool)

RRID:SCR_006472

A portal to biomedical and genomic information. NCBI creates public databases, conducts research in computational biology, develops software tools for analyzing genome data, and disseminates biomedical information for the better understanding of molecular processes affecting human health and disease.

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FigTree (tool)

RRID:SCR_008515

A graphical viewer of phylogenetic trees and a program for producing publication-ready figures. It is designed to display summarized and annotated trees produced by BEAST.

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Geneious (tool)

RRID:SCR_010519

Software package for sequence alignment, assembly and analysis. Integrated and extendable desktop software platform for organization and analysis of sequence data. Bioinformatics software platform packed with molecular biology and sequence analysis tools.

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BWA (tool)

RRID:SCR_010910

Software for aligning sequencing reads against large reference genome. Consists of three algorithms: BWA-backtrack, BWA-SW and BWA-MEM. First for sequence reads up to 100bp, and other two for longer sequences ranged from 70bp to 1Mbp.

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ProbCons (tool)

RRID:SCR_011813

Efficient protein multiple sequence alignment program, which has demonstrated a statistically significant improvement in accuracy compared to several leading alignment tools.

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Trimmomatic (tool)

RRID:SCR_011848

Software Java pipeline for trimming tasks for Illumina paired end and single ended data. Flexible Trimmer for Illumina Sequence Data. Pair aware preprocessing tool optimized for Illumina next generation sequencing data. Includes several processing steps for read trimming and filtering. Operating systems Unix/Linux, Mac OS, Windows.

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PTP (tool)

RRID:SCR_011952

A tool for delimiting species on phylogenies and evolutionary placements.

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SortMeRNA (tool)

RRID:SCR_014402

Sequence analysis software for filtering, mapping and OTU-picking NGS reads. SortMeRNA takes as input a file of reads (fasta or fastq format) and one or multiple rRNA database file(s), and sorts apart rRNA and rejected reads into two files specified by the user.

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PhyML (tool)

RRID:SCR_014629

Web phylogeny server based on the maximum-likelihood principle.

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Bowtie 2 (tool)

RRID:SCR_016368

Ultrafast and memory efficient tool for aligning sequencing reads to long reference sequences. Supports gapped, local, and paired end alignment modes. More suited to finding longer, gapped alignments in comparison with original Bowtie method.

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SOAPnuke (tool)

RRID:SCR_015025

Multi-threaded software for rapid quality control and preprocessing of high throughput sequencing data specified for different experiments. It consists of four modules that speed up the report on statistics graphs of raw datasets, preprocessed datasets and preprocessing status.

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Canu (tool)

RRID:SCR_015880

Software for scalable and accurate long-read assembly via adaptive k-mer weighting and repeat separation. Canu is a fork of the Celera Assembler and is designed for high-noise single-molecule sequencing (such as the PacBio RS II/Sequel or Oxford Nanopore MinION).

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Falcon (tool)

RRID:SCR_016089

Software package for aligning long sequencing reads as a diploid-aware genome assembler. Used for assembling non-inbred or rearranged heterozygous genomes.

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fastp (tool)

RRID:SCR_016962

Software tool to provide fast all in one preprocessing for FastQ files. Developed in C++ with multithreading supported to afford high performance. Performs quality control, adapter trimming, quality filtering, per read quality pruning and many other operations with a single scan of the FASTQ data.

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Porechop (tool)

RRID:SCR_016967

Software tool for finding and removing adapters from Oxford Nanopore reads.

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IQ-TREE (tool)

RRID:SCR_017254

Software tool as stochastic algorithm for estimating maximum likelihood phylogenies. Used for phylogenomic inference.

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BEAST2 (tool)

RRID:SCR_017307

Software package for advanced Bayesian evolutionary analysis by sampling trees. Used for phylogenetics, population genetics and phylodynamics. Program for Bayesian phylogenetic analysis of molecular sequences. Estimates rooted, time measured phylogenies using strict or relaxed molecular clock models. Framework can be extended by third parties. Comprised of standalone programs including BEAUti, BEAST, MASTER, RBS, SNAPP, MultiTypeTree, BDSKY, LogAnalyser, LogCombiner, TreeAnnotator, DensiTree and package manager.

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Ngmlr (tool)

RRID:SCR_017620

Software tool as long read mapper designed to align PacBio or Oxford Nanopore reads to reference genome and optimized for structural variation detection.

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SWISS-MODEL (tool)

RRID:SCR_018123

Software tool as fully automated protein structure homology modeling server, accessible via ExPASy web server, or from program DeepView Swiss Pdb-Viewer. Structural bioinformatics web-server dedicated to homology modeling of 3D protein structures. Used to make protein modelling accessible to all biochemists and molecular biologists.

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iTOL (tool)

RRID:SCR_018174

Web tool for display, annotation and management of phylogenetic trees. Accessible with any modern web browser.

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Nextstrain (tool)

RRID:SCR_018223

Open source project to harness scientific and public health potential of pathogen genome data. Provides continually updated view of publicly available data alongside powerful analytic and visualization tools for use by community. Used to aid epidemiological understanding and improve outbreak response. Open source SARS-CoV-2 genome data and analytic and visualization tools.

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Global Initiative on Sharing All Influenza Data (tool)

RRID:SCR_018251

Portal to share hCoV-19 genome sequences. Collection of genome sequences and related clinical and epidemiological data associated with coronavirus hCoV-19. Global repository of SARS-CoV-2 genomes. Initiative involves public-private-partnerships between Freunde of GISAID and governments of Federal Republic of Germany, Singapore and United States of America, with support from private and corporate philanthropy.International database of hCoV-19 genome sequences and related clinical and epidemiological data. Resource for influenza and hCoV-19 data.

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Minimap2 (tool)

RRID:SCR_018550

Software tool as pairwise alignment for nucleotide sequences. Alignment program to map DNA or long mRNA sequences against large reference database. Versatile pairwise aligner for genomic and spliced nucleotide sequences.

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