SNP Mutator
Generate mutated sequence files from a reference genome.
SNP Mutator was developed by the United States Food and Drug Administration, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition.
- Free software
- Documentation: https://snp-mutator.readthedocs.org.
- Source Code: https://github.com/CFSAN-Biostatistics/snp-mutator
- PyPI Distribution: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/snp-mutator
Features
- Reads a fasta file and generates any number of mutated fasta replicate files.
- Mutations can be any number of single-base substitutions, insertions, and deletions at randomly chosen positions, uniformly distributed across the genome.
- Generates a summary file listing the original base and the mutation for all mutated positions.
Citing SNP Mutator
To cite SNP Mutator, please reference the SNP Mutator GitHub repository:
https://github.com/CFSAN-Biostatistics/snp-mutator
License
See the LICENSE file included in the SNP Mutator distribution.