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    SRST2: Rapid genomic surveillance for public health and hospital microbiology labs
    Inouye, M ; Dashnow, H ; Raven, L-A ; Schultz, MB ; Pope, BJ ; Tomita, T ; Zobel, J ; Holt, KE (BMC, 2014-11-20)
    Rapid molecular typing of bacterial pathogens is critical for public health epidemiology, surveillance and infection control, yet routine use of whole genome sequencing (WGS) for these purposes poses significant challenges. Here we present SRST2, a read mapping-based tool for fast and accurate detection of genes, alleles and multi-locus sequence types (MLST) from WGS data. Using >900 genomes from common pathogens, we show SRST2 is highly accurate and outperforms assembly-based methods in terms of both gene detection and allele assignment. We include validation of SRST2 within a public health laboratory, and demonstrate its use for microbial genome surveillance in the hospital setting. In the face of rising threats of antimicrobial resistance and emerging virulence among bacterial pathogens, SRST2 represents a powerful tool for rapidly extracting clinically useful information from raw WGS data. Source code is available from http://katholt.github.io/srst2/.
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    Bandage: interactive visualisation of de novo genome assemblies
    Wick, RR ; Schultz, MB ; Zobel, J ; Holt, KE (Oxford University Press (OUP): Policy B - Oxford Open Option B, 2015)
    UNLABELLED: Although de novo assembly graphs contain assembled contigs (nodes), the connections between those contigs (edges) are difficult for users to access. Bandage (a Bioinformatics Application for Navigating De novo Assembly Graphs Easily) is a tool for visualizing assembly graphs with connections. Users can zoom in to specific areas of the graph and interact with it by moving nodes, adding labels, changing colors and extracting sequences. BLAST searches can be performed within the Bandage graphical user interface and the hits are displayed as highlights in the graph. By displaying connections between contigs, Bandage presents new possibilities for analyzing de novo assemblies that are not possible through investigation of contigs alone. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: Source code and binaries are freely available at https://github.com/rrwick/Bandage. Bandage is implemented in C++ and supported on Linux, OS X and Windows. A full feature list and screenshots are available at http://rrwick.github.io/Bandage. CONTACT: rrwick@gmail.com SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.