HLA*LA—HLA typing from linearly projected graph alignments

<p><strong>Summary</strong></p> <p>HLA*LA implements a new graph alignment model for human leukocyte antigen (HLA) type inference, based on the projection of linear alignments onto a variation graph. It enables accurate HLA type inference from whole-genome (99% accuracy...

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Main Authors: Dilthey, AT, Mentzer, AJ, Carapito, R, Cutland, C, Cereb, N, Madhi, SA, Rhie, A, Koren, S, Bahram, S, McVean, G, Phillippy, AM
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press 2019
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Summary:<p><strong>Summary</strong></p> <p>HLA*LA implements a new graph alignment model for human leukocyte antigen (HLA) type inference, based on the projection of linear alignments onto a variation graph. It enables accurate HLA type inference from whole-genome (99% accuracy) and whole-exome (93% accuracy) Illumina data; from long-read Oxford Nanopore and Pacific Biosciences data (98% accuracy for whole-genome and targeted data) and from genome assemblies. Computational requirements for a typical sample vary between 0.7 and 14 CPU hours per sample.</p> <br/> <p><strong>Availability and implementation</strong></p> <p>HLA*LA is implemented in C++ and Perl and freely available as a bioconda package or from https://github.com/DiltheyLab/HLA-LA (GPL v3).</p>