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VarIant SimulatOR for short, long and linked reads
https://github.com/davidebolo1993/VISOR

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VarIant SimulatOR for short, long and linked reads

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# VISOR
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## VISOR: haplotype-aware structural variants simulator for short, long and linked reads

VISOR is available to be installed from source or as a [Docker container](https://hub.docker.com/r/davidebolo1993/visor).
Please have a look at [VISOR documentation](https://davidebolo1993.github.io/visordoc/) for any installation or usage questions.

[Source Code](https://github.com/davidebolo1993/VISOR/tree/master/VISOR)

[Documentation](https://davidebolo1993.github.io/visordoc/)

## Citation

Are you using VISOR in your works? Please cite:

> Davide Bolognini, Ashley Sanders, Jan O Korbel, Alberto Magi, Vladimir Benes, Tobias Rausch. [VISOR: a versatile haplotype-aware structural variant simulator for short and long read sequencing](https://academic.oup.com/bioinformatics/article/doi/10.1093/bioinformatics/btz719/5582674/). Bioinformatics. 2019 Oct 7.

## Related works

VISOR has been applied to simulate Strand-seq data in:

> Ashley D Sanders, Sascha Meiers, Maryam Ghareghani, David Porubsky, Hyobin Jeong, M Alexandra CC van Vliet, Tobias Rausch, Paulina Richter-Pechańska, Joachim B Kunz, Silvia Jenni, Davide Bolognini, Gabriel MC Longo, Benjamin Raeder, Venla Kinanen, Jürgen Zimmermann, Vladimir Benes, Martin Schrappe, Balca R Mardin, Andreas E Kulozik, Beat Bornhauser, Jean-Pierre Bourquin, Tobias Marschall, Jan O Korbel. [Single-cell analysis of structural variations and complex rearrangements with tri-channel processing](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-019-0366-x). Nature Biotechnology. 2019 Dec 23.

VISOR has been applied to simulate repeat contractions/expansions in long-read data, as described in:

> Davide Bolognini, Alberto Magi, Vladimir Benes, Jan O Korbel, Tobias Rausch. [TRiCoLOR: tandem repeat profiling using whole-genome long-read sequencing data](https://academic.oup.com/gigascience/article/9/10/giaa101/5918863?searchresult=1). GigaScience. 2020 Oct 7.

VISOR has been applied to simulate SVs in long-read data, as described in:

> Davide Bolognini, Alberto Magi. [Evaluation of Germline Structural Variant Calling Methods for Nanopore Sequencing Data](https://doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2021.761791). Front. Genet. 2021 Nov 18.