Tool landscaping
Overview
In line with the scope of PGEforge, we focus our efforts on landscaping available tools that are commonly applied to Plasmodium genetic data and that focus on downstream analysis. Tools were initially considered within this scope if they:
- Focus on downstream analysis tools. This includes tools whose primary goal is to extract signal from pre-processed data, but does not include tools that are primarily used within upstream bioinformatic steps, such as variant callers and quality filters.
- Focus on Plasmodium genetics, including both P. falciparum and P. vivax.
In our initial landscaping, we did not consider applications to mosquito genetics or many broader population genetics tools, despite some tools and techniques being applicable for these purposes. However, we encourage contributions to this and anything else within the scope of PGEforge (i.e. Plasmodium genomic epidemiology tools), please see our contributor guidelines and some of our planned areas of future work.