A computational pipeline for genome-wide detection of putative horizontal gene transfer (HGT) events based on sequence homology search hit distribution statistics
Version: 0.2.1
Last update: 2016-2-2
Authors: Qiyun Zhu (qiyunzhu@gmail.com), Katharina Dittmar (katharinad@gmail.com)
Affiliation: Department of Biological Sciences, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Buffalo, USA
License: BSD 2-clause.
An article detailing the method and its performance on simulated and real genomic datasets can be found here:
Zhu Q, Kosoy M, Dittmar K. HGTector: an automated method facilitating genome-wide discovery of putative horizontal gene transfers. BMC Genomics. 2014. 15:717.
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Usage: Simply execute perl HGTector.pl, or, open GUI.html in a web browser to see a step-by-step wizard.