PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Maria Nattestad AU - Michael C Schatz TI - Assemblytics: a web analytics tool for the detection of assembly-based variants AID - 10.1101/044925 DP - 2016 Jan 01 TA - bioRxiv PG - 044925 4099 - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/03/20/044925.short 4100 - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/03/20/044925.full AB - Summary: Assemblytics is a web app for detecting and analyzing structural variants from a de novo genome assembly aligned to a reference genome. It incorporates a unique anchor filtering approach to increase robustness to repetitive elements, and identifies six classes of variants based on their distinct alignment signatures. Assemblytics can be applied both to comparing aberrant genomes, such as human cancers, to a reference, or to identify differences between related species. Multiple interactive visualizations enable in-depth explorations of the genomic distributions of variants.Availability and Implementation: http://qb.cshl.edu/assemblytics, https://github.com/marianattestad/assemblyticsContact: mnattest{at}cshl.eduSupplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.