Traditional ‘phasing’ programs are limited to diploid organisms. Our method modifies Li and Stephen’s algorithm with Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) approaches, and builds a generic framework that allows haloptype searches in a multiple infection setting.
Installation
pip install dEploid
Please see the documentation for further details.
You can freely use all code in this project under the conditions of the GNU GPL Version 3 or later.
If you use dEploid
with the flag -ibd
, please cite the following paper:
Zhu, J. S., J. A. Hendry, J. Almagro-Garcia, R. D. Pearson, R. Amato, A. Miles, D. J. Weiss, T. C. D. Lucas, M. Nguyen, P. W. Gething, D. Kwiatkowski, G. McVean, and for the Pf3k Project. (2018) The origins and relatedness structure of mixed infections vary with local prevalence of P. falciparum malaria. biorxiv, doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/387266.
If you use dEploid
in your work, please cite the program:
Zhu, J. S. J. A. Garcia G. McVean. (2018) Deconvolution of multiple infections in Plasmodium falciparum from high throughput sequencing data. Bioinformatics 34(1), 9-15. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btx530.