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RTG Tools

RTG Tools includes several useful utilities for dealing with VCF files and sequence data. The bundle packages version 3.12.1.

Usage example

The following command can be executed in the terminal to load the bundle:

module load rtgtools

The RTG Tools command can be run as shown as below:

rtg

The rtgtools_shell command can be run for a shell in the bundle.

Performance notes

No performance notes available

No recommended resources available

Benchmarks

No benchmarks available.

Community guides and tutorials

  • No community guides available.

Official site and documentation

Licensing information

RTG Tools is licensed under the BSD-2-Clause license.

Primary citation

John G. Cleary, Ross Braithwaite, Kurt Gaastra, Brian S. Hilbush, Stuart Inglis, Sean A. Irvine, Alan Jackson, Richard Littin, Mehul Rathod, David Ware, Justin M. Zook, Len Trigg, Francisco M. De La Vega. Comparing Variant Call Files for Performance Benchmarking of Next-Generation Sequencing Variant Calling Pipelines. doi

External guides and resources

  • If you know of a guide/tutorial that you have found useful, please help us share it by contacting the HPC staff at hpc@ufs.ac.za