BreakPoint Surveyor: a pipeline for structural variant visualization

Bioinformatics. 2017 Oct 1;33(19):3121-3122. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btx362.

Abstract

Summary: BreakPoint Surveyor (BPS) is a computational pipeline for the discovery, characterization, and visualization of complex genomic rearrangements, such as viral genome integration, in paired-end sequence data. BPS facilitates interpretation of structural variants by merging structural variant breakpoint predictions, gene exon structure, read depth, and RNA-sequencing expression into a single comprehensive figure.

Availability and implementation: Source code and sample data freely available for download at https://github.com/ding-lab/BreakPointSurveyor, distributed under the GNU GPLv3 license, implemented in R, Python and BASH scripts, and supported on Unix/Linux/OS X operating systems.

Contact: lding@wustl.edu.

Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

MeSH terms

  • Exons
  • Genome, Viral
  • Genomic Structural Variation*
  • Genomics
  • Sequence Analysis, RNA
  • Software*
  • Virus Integration
  • Whole Genome Sequencing