Copyright¶
kPAL is licensed under the MIT License, meaning you can do whatever you want with it as long as all copies include these license terms. The full license text can be found below.
Authors¶
kPAL is written and maintained by Jeroen F.J. Laros at Leiden University Medical Center and includes contributions by Martijn Vermaat.
- Leiden University Medical Center <humgen@lumc.nl>
- Jeroen F.J. Laros <j.f.j.laros@lumc.nl>
- Martijn Vermaat <martijn@vermaat.name>
License¶
Copyright (c) 2013-2014 by Jeroen F.J. Laros and contributors (see AUTHORS.rst for details).
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
Citations¶
Please cite the following paper if you use kPAL in your own work:
Anvar et al., Determining the quality and complexity of next-generation sequencing data without a reference genome. Genome Biology 2014, 15:555. doi:10.1186/s13059-014-0555-3
@Article{kpal2014,
AUTHOR = {Anvar, Seyed and Khachatryan, Lusine and Vermaat, Martijn and
van Galen, Michiel and Pulyakhina, Irina and Ariyurek, Yavuz and
Kraaijeveld, Ken and den Dunnen, Johan and de Knijff, Peter and 't
Hoen, Peter and Laros, Jeroen},
TITLE = {Determining the quality and complexity of next-generation
sequencing data without a reference genome},
JOURNAL = {Genome Biology},
VOLUME = {15},
YEAR = {2014},
NUMBER = {12},
PAGES = {555},
URL = {http://genomebiology.com/2014/15/12/555},
DOI = {10.1186/s13059-014-0555-3},
ISSN = {1465-6906},
ABSTRACT = {We describe an open-source kPAL package that facilitates an
alignment-free assessment of the quality and comparability of
sequencing datasets by analyzing k-mer frequencies. We show that kPAL
can detect technical artefacts such as high duplication rates, library
chimeras, contamination and differences in library preparation
protocols. kPAL also successfully captures the complexity and
diversity of microbiomes and provides a powerful means to study
changes in microbial communities. Together, these features make kPAL
an attractive and broadly applicable tool to determine the quality and
comparability of sequence libraries even in the absence of a reference
sequence. kPAL is freely available at https://github.com/LUMC/kPAL
webcite.},
}