Software Packages

Department of Quantitative Health Sciences
Mayo Clinic Research
Formerly known as the Department of Health Sciences Research

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GenomeSmasher SNP_mutator Description

SNP_mutator_v2.pl is a perl script that will generate a vcf file of positions of single nucleotide variations, as well as small insertions and deletions that can be used as input for GenomeSmasher.

Usage

usage: SNP_mutator.pl -f [-omid]

  • -o Output File. Default = snp_mutator_output.vcf
  • -m Total number of Desired point Mutations
  • -i Total number of Desired Insertions
  • -d Total number of Desired Deletions

Special Notes

If the nucleotide in the reference is “N”, that position will be skipped and no mutation will not be made

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