lh3

Heng Li Joined Nov 2010 4,425 followers View on GitHub

Stars
13,045
across 108 public repos
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#2,267
of 324,727 users, top 0.7%
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Repositories with 50+ stars

lh3's repositories with their overall rank
RankRepositoryLanguageStars
29,976

A versatile pairwise aligner for genomic and spliced nucleotide sequences

C 2,269
38,577

Burrow-Wheeler Aligner for short-read alignment (see minimap2 for long-read alignment)

C 1,776
43,749

Toolkit for processing sequences in FASTA/Q formats

C 1,568
100,045

BWK awk modified for biological data

C 643
127,024

Sequence-to-graph mapper and graph generator

C 494
144,511

Align proteins to genomes with splicing and frameshift

C 427
166,832

Successor of bwa-mem for short-read alignment

C 363
168,034

Ultrafast de novo assembly for long noisy reads (though having no consensus step)

TeX 360
201,560

Reads simulator

C 292
225,468

Tools for manipulating sequence graphs in the GFA and rGFA formats

C 256
262,589

Constructing a pangenome gene graph

C 213
283,621

Implementation of the Pairwise Sequentially Markovian Coalescent (PSMC) model

C 194
295,156

Benchmarking programming languages/implementations for common tasks in Bioinformatics

C 185
303,240

Fast multi-line FASTA/Q reader in several programming languages

C 179
303,240

Yet another k-mer analyzer

C 179
308,966

Code examples of fast and simple k-mer counters for tutorial purposes

C++ 175
316,597

A C/C++ library for fast interval overlap queries (with a "bedtools coverage" example)

C 170
356,742

A simple toolset for BED files (warning: CLI may change before bedtk becomes stable)

C 147
360,673

Global alignment and alignment extension

C 145
384,613

BWT construction and search

C 134
414,872

TAD calling, phase imputation, 3D modeling and more for diploid single-cell Hi-C (Dip-C) and general Hi-C

C 122
420,327

Reference-based variant calling pipeline for a pair of phased haplotype assemblies

JavaScript 120
447,150

SRF: Satellite Repeat Finder

TeX 111
450,284

De novo assembly based variant calling pipeline for Illumina short reads

TeX 110
463,694

This repo is DEPRECATED. Please use minimap2, the successor of minimap.

C 106
466,895

Identify long STRs, VNTRs, satellite DNA and other low-complexity regions in a genome

C 105
500,875

Simple pileup-based variant caller

C 96
504,943

Flexible genotype query among 30,000+ samples whole-genome

C 95
541,286

A EXPERIMENTAL fork of minimap2 optimized for assembly-to-reference alignment

C 87
572,689

Model and predict short DNA sequence features with neural networks

C 81
608,150

High-performance error correction for Illumina resequencing data

TeX 75
614,542

A WGS de novo assembler based on the FMD-index for large genomes

C 74
627,850

Incremental construction of FM-index for DNA sequences

TeX 72
627,850

Standalone C library for assembling Illumina short reads in small regions

C 72
634,685

Open Human Genome Library

71
664,599

Human reference genome analysis sets

Makefile 67
706,696

Toolkit for processing TAB-delimited format

C 62
724,734

Scoring GT/AG sites for improving spliced alignment

C 60
754,618

Proof-of-concept implementation of GWFA for sequence-to-graph alignment

C 57
775,760 TeX 55
822,902

Exact Tandem Repeat Finder (not a TRF replacement)

C 51
822,902

A reimplementation of the WaveFront Alignment algorithm at low memory

C 51
835,459

Symmetric DUST for finding low-complexity regions in DNA sequences

C 50

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