The success of pangenome-based approaches to genomics analysis depends largely on the existence of efficient methods for constructing pangenome graphs that are applicable to large genome collections. In the current paper we present AlfaPang, a new pangenome graph building algorithm. AlfaPang is based on a novel alignment-free approach that allows to construct pangenome graphs using significantly less computational resources than state-of-the-art tools. The code of AlfaPang is freely available at https://github.com/AdamCicherski/AlfaPang.
@InProceedings{cicherski_et_al:LIPIcs.WABI.2024.23, author = {Cicherski, Adam and Lisiecka, Anna and Dojer, Norbert}, title = {{AlfaPang: Alignment Free Algorithm for Pangenome Graph Construction}}, booktitle = {24th International Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics (WABI 2024)}, pages = {23:1--23:18}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-340-9}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2024}, volume = {312}, editor = {Pissis, Solon P. and Sung, Wing-Kin}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.WABI.2024.23}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-206673}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.WABI.2024.23}, annote = {Keywords: pangenome, variation graph, genome alignment, population genomics} }
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