GPTomics

Plot per-gene mutation distributions on a protein-domain map (lollipop / needle plots) showing mutation position, recurrence count, and variant classification with maftools, g3-lollipop, trackViewer, and ProteinPaint. Use when visualizing recurrent mutation hotspots on a single gene's protein, marking domain boundaries from UniProt/Pfam, comparing missense vs truncating distributions, or contrasting two cohorts on the same lollipop.

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Build Manhattan, Miami, QQ, and locuszoom-style regional plots from GWAS, TWAS, PWAS, and QTL summary statistics with correct genomic-inflation diagnostics, multi-trait overlays, lead-SNP labeling, and LD-aware regional rendering. Use when visualizing association results across the genome, comparing two traits, computing genomic inflation lambda, or zooming into a locus with LD coloring.

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Build OncoPrint and co-mutation matrix plots from somatic-variant cohorts using ComplexHeatmap, maftools, and comut.py with alteration-type stacking, sample ordering by mutational burden, mutual-exclusivity overlays, and clinical annotation tracks. Use when visualizing per-sample mutation patterns across recurrent driver genes, comparing alteration classes, or identifying mutually-exclusive / co-occurring driver pairs.

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Build UpSet plots to visualize set intersections beyond 4 sets (where Venn fails) using ComplexUpset (modern, ggplot2-grammar) or the unmaintained UpSetR, with explicit cardinality vs degree sorting, attribute panels, and query highlighting. Use when comparing overlap across many gene sets, peak sets, variant lists, or any set membership matrix where Venn diagrams become illegible.

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Build publication-quality figures with matplotlib using the object-oriented Figure/Axes API, constrained_layout, rcParams customization, TrueType (Type-42) font embedding for journal submission, and CVD-safe palettes. Covers seaborn integration, common chart types, axis formatting, and the small gotchas that distinguish reproducible matplotlib from notebook scratch. Use when producing publication figures in Python — RNA-seq scatter, single-cell embeddings, generic biological plotting.

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Build sequence logos from aligned DNA, RNA, or protein motifs using ggseqlogo (R), Logomaker (Python), or WebLogo with explicit bits vs probability encoding, background-frequency correction, custom alphabets, and multi-logo stacking. Use when visualizing motif PWMs (TF binding, splice sites, CRISPR spacers), aligned-position composition, or comparing two motif sets.

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Annotate CLIP-seq peaks or crosslink sites to RNA features (5'UTR, CDS, 3'UTR, intron, splice junction, snoRNA, tRNA, ncRNA, repeat elements) with ChIPseeker, RCAS, RBP-Maps (Yeo splicing regulatory maps), and bedtools, applying feature-priority hierarchies, transcript-context resolution, and metagene aggregation. Use when characterizing where in transcripts an RBP binds, comparing peak distribution across regions, generating splicing-regulatory maps relative to alternative-splicing events, or distinguishing exonic vs intronic vs UTR binding.

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Constructs and validates polygenic risk scores using LDpred2-auto, SBayesRC, MegaPRS, PRS-CS, PROSPER, MUSSEL, BridgePRS, JointPRS, PRSmix, or PGS Catalog Calculator with ancestry-aware reference panels (HapMap3, UKB-LD), ancestry-conditional calibration, and PRS-RS reporting standards. Use when computing PRS for cohorts, applying absolute-risk transformation, assessing cross-ancestry portability (Martin 2017 / Ding 2023 continuous ancestry), or auditing PRS manuscripts against the 22-item PRS-RS reviewer checklist.

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Infer orthologous genes and gene families across species using OrthoFinder3 (HOG-based phylogenetic orthology), SonicParanoid2, Broccoli, ProteinOrtho, OMA / FastOMA hierarchical orthologous groups, eggNOG-mapper, JustOrthologs, and TOGA whole-genome-alignment orthology. Use when building single-copy ortholog sets for phylogenomics, classifying co-orthologs and in/out-paralogs after gene duplication, propagating functional annotation via orthology with awareness of the ortholog conjecture, distinguishing speciation from duplication via gene-tree species-tree reconciliation, computing Quest-for-Orthologs benchmark performance, or running synteny-aware ortholog detection in WGD-affected lineages.

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Detect syntenic blocks and structural rearrangements between genomes using MCScanX (Wang 2012), JCVI/MCScan (Tang 2008 Python), GENESPACE (Lovell 2022) for orthology-anchored riparian visualization, SyRI for structural variation, AnchorWave for sequence-level synteny, i-ADHoRe 3.0 for highly diverged species, SynNet for synteny networks, and ntSynt for multi-genome macrosynteny. Use when identifying collinear gene blocks across species, distinguishing macrosynteny from microsynteny, detecting inversions/translocations/duplications, anchoring orthology in WGD lineages, producing publication riparian plots, computing synteny block age via Ks (cross-references whole-genome-duplication), or running synteny-aware ortholog inference in polyploids.

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Normalize read-depth copy-ratio profiles and segment them into copy-number regions using circular binary segmentation (CBS, DNAcopy), hidden Markov models, HaarSeg, and fused-lasso methods. Covers GC-content, mappability, and replication-timing (wave-artifact) bias correction, panel-of-normals/PCA denoising, diploid-baseline centering, and algorithm selection by sequencing depth and event size. Use when choosing a segmentation algorithm, correcting depth bias, diagnosing oversegmentation or a mis-centered baseline, tuning CBS or HMM parameters, or understanding why a downstream CNV caller produced fragmented or shifted segments.

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Queries myvariant.info BioThings aggregator for ClinVar, gnomAD, dbSNP, dbNSFP, COSMIC, CADD, and CIViC annotations in batched, version-tracked requests. Use when annotating variant lists from multiple databases simultaneously without managing per-source APIs, and when reproducibility-grade analyses require recording source data versions via _meta.

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Map N6-methyladenosine (m6A) RNA modifications at single-nucleotide resolution using miCLIP (Linder 2015), miCLIP2 + m6Aboost machine learning (Kortel 2021), GLORI (Liu 2023, antibody-free chemical conversion), DART-seq (Meyer 2019, APOBEC1-YTH fusion), m6Anet (nanopore direct RNA), or MeRIP-seq with calibration. Use when distinguishing antibody-based from antibody-free m6A detection methods, applying the DRACH motif constraint, reconciling cross-method disagreements (DART 44% in DRACH vs GLORI), or detecting m6Am at the cap.

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Infer integer allele-specific copy number, tumor purity, and ploidy from tumor sequencing by jointly modeling read depth (logR) and B-allele frequency (BAF) with ASCAT, Sequenza, FACETS, PURPLE, and PureCN (tumor-only). Covers the purity-ploidy identifiability problem, the diploid-baseline (dipLogR) anchor, major/minor copy number, loss of heterozygosity, sunrise/contour fit diagnostics, and reconciliation of conflicting fits. Use when tumor analysis needs absolute copy number rather than relative log2, when estimating purity and ploidy, calling LOH or copy-neutral LOH, resolving whole-genome doubling, running tumor-only allele-specific calling, or choosing among ASCAT, Sequenza, FACETS, and PureCN.

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Queries PharmGKB / CPIC / DPWG for drug-gene interactions; calls CYP2D6/CYP2C9/CYP2C19/DPYD/TPMT/NUDT15/UGT1A1/SLCO1B1 star alleles and phenotype with PharmCAT, Cyrius (CYP2D6 structural variants), Aldy, Stargazer; applies Caudle 2020 activity-score translation. Use when implementing pharmacogenomic-guided prescribing, applying CPIC vs DPWG guidance, screening HLA risk alleles for ICI / antiepileptics / abacavir, or interpreting compound TPMT+NUDT15 thiopurine risk.

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Prioritizes rare-disease variants from trio/quad WES/WGS with de novo (DeNovoGear, Triodenovo), compound-heterozygous phasing (WhatsHap), mosaic VAF tiering, phenotype-driven ranking (Exomiser, Phen2Gene, AMELIE), ClinGen gene-disease validity gating, and ACMG SF v3.2 secondary findings reporting. Use when running diagnostic exome / genome pipelines, identifying candidate Mendelian disease genes, screening for incidental findings, or auditing VUS reclassification cycles. The ACMG/AMP classification framework (PVS1 decision tree, Pejaver PP3/BP4 calibration, Tavtigian point system) is in clinical-databases/acmg-classification.

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Model gene-family birth-death dynamics across a species tree using CAFE5 (Mendes et al 2020 Bioinformatics 36:5516 gamma-distributed rate categories), CAFE5-error (annotation-error-aware), Count (Csurös 2010 ancestral state reconstruction), BadiRate (Librado 2012 likelihood + parsimony), DupliPHY-Family, and ALE/AleRax (for per-family DTL; see [[gene-tree-species-tree-reconciliation]]). Test lineage-specific gene-family expansions and contractions, distinguish biological dynamics from annotation artifacts, account for assembly fragmentation, identify functional enrichment in expanded / contracted families. Use when correlating gene-family changes with phenotype evolution, ranking lineages by adaptive gene-family-rate shifts, post-WGD dosage-balance analysis, or building Birth-death models from OrthoFinder presence/absence matrices.

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Detect horizontal gene transfer (HGT / LGT) using compositional methods (GC%, codon usage, tetranucleotide z-scores via SIGI-HMM, AlienHunter, IslandViewer 4, IslandPath-DIMOB), phylogenetic-incongruence methods (AvP, HGTphyloDetect, ALE / GeneRax / AleRax reconciliation, RANGER-DTL), and BLAST-distribution methods (HGTector v2, DarkHorse, Alien Index). Use when screening prokaryote genomes for genomic islands and HGT events, distinguishing HGT from incomplete lineage sorting / differential gene loss / hybridization, mapping donor lineages via phylogenetic placement, separating eukaryotic HGT from contamination, ruling out gBGC as a false signal, or quantifying DTL rates with ALE/GeneRax on bacterial trees.

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Comprehensive quality control for CLIP-seq libraries (eCLIP, iCLIP, iCLIP2, PAR-CLIP) covering library complexity (preseq), FRiP, IDR replicate reproducibility, read-distribution metagene, SMInput vs IgG control rationale, rRNA / snoRNA contamination, fragment-length distribution, and ENCODE-compliance thresholds. Use when assessing whether a CLIP library passed, deciding lenient vs stringent peak thresholds, comparing replicates with IDR rescue and self-consistency ratios, or distinguishing failed IP from over-amplified library.

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Reconstruct ancestral states at internal phylogenetic nodes for sequences (PAML codeml, IQ-TREE --ancestral, GRASP, FastML), discrete traits (corHMM hidden-rate Markov, ape::ace, phytools::make.simmap stochastic mapping, BayesTraits), and continuous traits (phytools::fastAnc, geiger Brownian/OU, RPANDA). Use when designing constructs for ancestral protein resurrection, tracing trait evolution along a tree, performing stochastic character mapping, testing models of trait evolution (BM vs OU vs EB), inferring ancestral genome content via Dollo or DTL reconciliation, or quantifying ancestral-state uncertainty for downstream comparative analyses.

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Compute genome-to-genome distances (ANI, AAI, dDDH, k-mer Mash) and assign taxonomic classifications using skani (Shaw 2023), FastANI (Jain 2018), pyani / pyANI ANIb / ANIm, OrthoANI (Lee 2016), AAI (amino-acid identity), dDDH via TYGS / GGDC, GTDB-Tk (Chaumeil 2020 standard prokaryote taxonomy), and Mash MinHash (Ondov 2016). Use when delineating prokaryote species (95% ANI threshold; Jain 2018 Nat Commun 9:5114), assigning genomes to GTDB taxonomy with ANI radius, computing genome similarity matrices for clustering, classifying archaea, evaluating MAG (metagenome-assembled genome) species assignment, applying skani for fast metagenomic ANI screening, or reconciling 16S rRNA-based taxonomy with whole-genome ANI.

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Build and analyze pangenomes for prokaryotes (Panaroo, PPanGGOLiN, PEPPAN, GET_HOMOLOGUES, anvi'o pangenomics) and eukaryotes (Minigraph-Cactus, PGGB, vg pangenome graphs). Implement Tettelin core/accessory/cloud genome decomposition (Tettelin 2005), Heap's law open/closed pangenome modeling, gene presence/absence GWAS (Scoary, pyseer), pangenome graph variant calling (vg, PanGenie), and structural-variation graph indexing. Use when assembling species- or genus-level pan-gene catalogs, separating core from accessory/shell/cloud genes, testing gene-content associations with phenotypes, building pangenome graphs from haplotype-resolved assemblies, calling SVs from pangenome graphs, or selecting between bacterial-pangenome and eukaryotic-pangenome workflows.

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Detect positive (diversifying / episodic / pervasive) selection using codon dN/dS frameworks. Implements PAML codeml site models (M0/M1a/M2a/M7/M8/M8a), branch models, branch-site model A (Zhang 2005), and HyPhy methods (BUSTED, BUSTED-S, BUSTED-MH, BUSTED-PH, MEME, FEL, FUBAR, aBSREL, SLAC, RELAX, GARD, FUBAR-MH). Includes McDonald-Kreitman framework (asymptotic alpha, impMKT, polyDFE, DFE-alpha, GRAPES) for within-species + divergence inference, RERconverge for trait-correlated rate shifts, CSUBST for convergent substitution, and PhyloAcc for accelerated noncoding evolution. Use when testing adaptive evolution at codons, branches, or full gene; running GARD recombination pre-screen; controlling alignment-error and gBGC false positives; reconciling PAML vs HyPhy results; or performing genome-scale selection scans.

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Annotate copy number variant segments with overlapping genes, dosage-sensitivity scores, cancer driver databases, population frequencies, and clinical-variant content. Covers bedtools/pybedtools interval intersection, AnnotSV comprehensive annotation and ranking, ClinGen haploinsufficiency/triplosensitivity scoring, gnomAD-SV/DGV frequency filtering, COSMIC Cancer Gene Census, and ClinVar overlap. Use when interpreting which genes a CNV affects, distinguishing the driver gene of a focal event from passengers, filtering against population CNVs, separating whole-gene from partial-gene overlap, or preparing CNVs for clinical classification.

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