LOCUST: a custom sequence locus typer for classifying microbial isolates

Lauren M Brinkac; Erin Beck; Jason Inman; Pratap Venepally; Derrick E Fouts; Granger Sutton

doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btx045

LOCUST: a custom sequence locus typer for classifying microbial isolates

Bioinformatics. 2017 Jun 1;33(11):1725-1726. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btx045.

Authors

Lauren M Brinkac^{1

2}, Erin Beck¹, Jason Inman¹, Pratap Venepally¹, Derrick E Fouts¹, Granger Sutton¹

Affiliations

¹ J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, MD, USA.
² Department of Biotechnology and Food Technology, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa.

Abstract

Summary: LOCUST is a custom sequence locus typer tool for classifying microbial genomes. It provides a fully automated opportunity to customize the classification of genome-wide nucleotide variant data most relevant to biological research.

Availability and implementation: Source code, demo data, and detailed documentation are freely available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/locustyper .

Contact: lbrinkac@jcvi.org.

Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

MeSH terms

Bacteria / classification*
Bacteria / genetics
Genome, Bacterial*
Genomics / methods
Molecular Typing / methods*
Sequence Analysis, DNA / methods*
Software*

Grants and funding

U19 AI110819/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States