ACES: Analysis of Conservation with Expansive Species

Abstract

MotivationAn abundance of new reference genomes are becoming available through large-scale sequencing efforts. While the reference FASTA for each genome is available, there is currently no automated mechanism to query a specific sequence across all new reference genomes. ResultsWe developed ACES (Analysis of Conservation with Expansive Species) as a computational workflow to query specific sequences of interest (e.g., enhancers, promoters, exons) against reference genomes with an available reference FASTA. This automated workflow generates BLAST hits against each of the reference genomes, a multiple sequence alignment file, a graphical fragment assembly file, and a phylogenetic tree file. These data files can then be used by the researcher in several ways to provide key insights into conservation of the query sequence. AvailabilityACES is available at https://github.com/TNTurnerLab/ACES Contacttychele@wustl.edu Supplementary informationSupplementary Figure 1 is available on bioRxiv.