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liusihan / seGMM

A new tool to infer sex from massively parallel sequencing data.
MIT License
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Working with non Human data #5

Open murielgb opened 1 year ago

murielgb commented 1 year ago

Hello,

I am not working with Human data but with date palm. I have a vcf where I took only the part of the chr12 which is recognized as the sex-determination region according to our previous work. In this vcf, I have mostly female, but also some males, and individuals for which I don't know the sex. That's the goal: identify it! Can I use the software for this purpose on non-human data? Thanks! Muriel

liusihan commented 1 year ago

Hi Muriel,

The current version of seGMM only works with human data. But the idea that the tool predicts sex can be extended to other species. I suggest that you can make gender predictions on your data by modifying the source code of seGMM.

In the future, we may improve seGMM to make it applicable to more species!

Thanks, Sihan

murielgb commented 1 year ago

Many thanks for your reply Sihan! I will check what I can do! Best, Muriel