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BGT: efficient and flexible genotype query across many samples

Genomics 2017-08-07 v2

Abstract

Summary: BGT is a compact format, a fast command line tool and a simple web application for efficient and convenient query of whole-genome genotypes and frequencies across tens to hundreds of thousands of samples. On real data, it encodes the haplotypes of 32,488 samples across 39.2 million SNPs into a 7.4GB database and decodes a couple of hundred million genotypes per CPU second. The high performance enables real-time responses to complex queries. Availability and implementation: https://github.com/lh3/bgt Contact: hengli@broadinstitute.org

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@article{arxiv.1506.08452,
  title  = {BGT: efficient and flexible genotype query across many samples},
  author = {Heng Li},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1506.08452},
  year   = {2017}
}

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Identical to the published version except formatting

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